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The Panopticon is a prison design by Jeremy Bentham (1786).

Panopticon may also refer to:

Buildings

• Britannia Panopticon or The Panopticon, names for the Britannia Music Hall, Glasgow, Scotland
• Panopticons, an arts and regeneration project to construct landmarks in East Lancashire, England

Music

• Panopticon (band), an American black metal/bluegrass project created by Austin Lunn
• Panopticon (album), by Isis, 2004
• "Panopticon" (song), by Smashing Pumpkins, 2012
• Panopticom, (song, PanopticoM) by Peter Gabriel, 2023

Other uses

• The Panopticon (book), a book by Jenni Fagan
• Panopticon Software, a data visualization software company
• Panopticon, a book for the Eclipse Phase role playing game
• The Panopticon Chamber, a location on the planet Gallifrey in the science fiction series Doctor Who

See also

• Panoptes, a Greek mythological name
• Panopticism, a social theory developed by Michel Foucault
• Banopticon
• Opticon (disambiguation)