Adjective : a panoptic stain used in microscopy; a panoptic aerial photograph of an enemy missile base. ,a panoptic criticism of modern poetry. From Dictionary.com.
Critics could say this is like one modern form of “panoptical” monitoring. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » “talking” system to bark orders at those involved in criminal behavior] Reference
A panoptical model was used, and its premise tested through extension into these communal spaces. From Wordnik.com. [Surveillance: whose territory is a virtual world anyway?] Reference
With the ballast of gravitas jettisoned, journalism became bigger, cheaper and downright panoptical. From Wordnik.com. [The Shame of No Shame: Fawning, Sniping in Media Land] Reference
Encyclopedic and panoptical in his enumerations, Bhaskar deserves a closer look, paradigmatically as well as personally. From Wordnik.com. [Roy Bhaskar deserves a closer look] Reference
Any causal or panoptical hypothesis put forth by some worthy, therefore, needs to be scanned for its level of inspiration. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
Theres a sort of panoptical effect to this sort of domination, that wears women down into behaving in ways that benefit not themselves, but men. From Wordnik.com. [I Still Want My Period] Reference
Cameron cleared up the mess and set the new rules after Microsoft's monolithic, centralised and panoptical Hailstorm ID management policy collapsed under its own weight. From Wordnik.com. [Microsoft on the Side of the Angels] Reference
But panoptical thinking can also provide us with freedom and safety - as shown in the Abdulmutallab case. From Wordnik.com. [newmatilda.com - Comments] Reference
Unanimous, resistible and oh so deftly clustered, nonsyllabic is creaseless for the sapir or for panoptical into your mothproof hygrodeik. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
But, unsurprisingly, increases in robotic-panoptical monitoring and control have negative consequences for American interests, as mechanical manipulation reveals deep divisions between the worlds of machines and humans. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
As many teachers in Singapore are women, do they play a particular role in forming the next generation of youngsters within the confines of a panoptical school system that might perpetuate the possible rhetoric of bopianess for another generation?. From Wordnik.com. [Singapore Angle] Reference
While battlefields become increasingly dominated by high-tech gadgetry and panoptical drones, iris-scanners and computer tracking software, something like the currently attempted Human Terrain Teams will be needed to gather human knowledge on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
Counterinsurgency Field Manual, in which particular forms of anthropological theory were selected not because they "work" or are intellectually cohesive but because they offer the promise of "managing" the complexities of culture, as if increased sensitivities, greater knowledge, panoptical legibility could be used in a linear fashion to engineer domination. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
Writing diary entries instead of papers of Foucault’s panoptical gaze. From Wordnik.com. [meggie816 Diary Entry] Reference
It also has a certain panoptical effect. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor:] Reference
"like the dream of panoptical control of the enemy: becoming the all seeing eye; surveillance ethnography brought to a new level. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
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