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Panoptichron 

Noun. (It’s a person, place and/or thang/state of mind)
Like the famous (panopticon) prison design from some great Dutch guy, The Panoptichron is a feeling that one gets after indulging in the substance known as "lady Jane". A Participant smokes said substance and enters a "zone", if you will, which is referred to as the Panoptichron.
Gabe: yo how are the cupcakes feeling?
Oprah: I am mangled.
Tim: I have entered the Panoptichron.

Alex: Fuck you guys, instead of maturbating my life away, I am going to pull a solo mission to run that Panoptichron shit.

Tim: lets enter the Panoptichron later.
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Panopticon 

Panopticon (n)

Translated as "All-seeing", Panopticon is a photographic term, first coined by UK based artist, Ruski. It is used to describe a particular style of 360° panoramic images, rendered in a stereographic projection, such that the entire scene surrounds a central vantage point.

The unique perspective generated is instantly recognisable, though can sometimes be mistaken for fish-eye images. Photographs from outside, appear like a little planet, wheras indoor scenes can be transformed with ceiling structures encircling the scene.

The term was inspired by the original use in prison design, where the cells, and the prisoners within, all surround and are visible from a single central spot.
"During the 27th Art of Norwich exhibition, Ruski coined the term "Panopticon", to describe a unique style of photography."

"Wow, look at that awesome panopticon photograph"
Panopticon by Art of Norwich March 28, 2013

Virtual Panopticon 

A virtual panopticon is a world were everyone is monitored by a government or computer system that decides what we should eat, wear, fear and other task that we, the common people, otherwise take for granted.
See books by John Twelve Hawks as a most triumphant example. This deal with a virtual panopticon and how it could really come down to effecting people.

Flesh Panopticon 

The Flesh Panopticon is a large organism of unknown type, similar to the Flesh Prison. It is found in P-2: WAIT OF THE WORLD as the first of the two bosses. It releases Sisyphus Prime upon death, although the latter tore his way out of the Panopticon by himself
Sisyphus prime: "This prison… To hold ME?" (Sisyphus breaking out of the Flesh Panopticon)

panopticon 

Pan-(all) -opticon(observe)

A design concept where all areas of an interior space are visible from any point outside the confined area. Also refers to a unique prison structure built by philosopher Jeremy Bentham, allowing guards unobstructed views of inmates, without inmates being aware that every area of the cell is monitored. Panopticon could be used in a metaphorical sense as vulnerable, revealing, voyeur, or in general to describe watching someone living in a glass house.
Panopticon is a word only a smug, ahole would use, and it's only seen in print - never spoken. "Words like deskussion, comflict, panopticon, ...only chi-chi men would use dem words." -A.G.

Sorry, bad example. Here's another example:

"The capsized men were stuck in a watery panopticon where sharks prey." -C.B.
panopticon by Cletus Brown August 1, 2006

Panopticon Effect 

Habits and behavior reflexively caused by the belief that one is being observed or when their actions will become known to another person.
If a stranger leaves a credit card in the room with you, you COULD write down all of its numbers and buy something with it, but you won't. Maybe because someone who would take offense to it is in the same room. Or there is a security camera in the room and someone on the other side will see it. Or the person who owns the card will notice less money in their account and find the address the package was sent to. You probably don't even know the specific reason beyond a strange tingling in the back of your neck warning you of the dangers of doing it. No matter the specific reason, they all fall under the Panopticon Effect.

Panopticon 

An old prison in which all the prisoners would never do anything bad having a sense a paranoia that someone is always watching them, it is called Panopticon
When you see a sign in the middle of the night that says "KEEP OFF GRASS!!" you stay away from it even though no one is near to see you it shows a sign that you have Panopticon
Panopticon by uziman55 February 27, 2011
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