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panóptico
A type of prison where all the cells are visible from the center, particularly if it is not possible for those in a cell to know if they are being watched.
1787 Jeremy Bentham: Panopticon: or, the inspection-house. Panopticon: or, the inspection-house. Containing the idea of a new principle of construction applicable to any sort of es…
He was alive to every creak and dunt, the thinness of the walls, as if the tenement block was a kind of aural panopticon that funnelled every sound to the other residents, let ever…
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