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Panopticism

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Meaning

The state or quality of being panoptic; all-seeingness..

Example Sentences

Today's panopticism (in the West, at least) hasn't had anything like this effect, as Angwin notes, because it can be quite crude in displaying its own invasive footprints: You shop for cameras online, and then find yourself haunted for weeks by camera ads each time you visit a new website.
I cannot help but follow such panopticism to its ultimate conclusion: a Nineteen Eighty-Four scenario.
The goal of police panopticism is to minimize the severe costs of managing the police by leveraging data-driven surveillance from multiple institutional points and actors.

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What does panopticism mean?

Panopticism means The state or quality of being panoptic; all-seeingness..

What is a synonym for panopticism?

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What is the opposite of panopticism?

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How do you use panopticism in a sentence?

Today's panopticism (in the West, at least) hasn't had anything like this effect, as Angwin notes, because it can be quite crude in displaying its own invasive footprints: You shop for cameras online, and then find yourself haunted for weeks by camera ads each time you visit a new website.

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