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Angela Carter, in her 1984 novel Nights at the Circus, linked the panopticon of Countes P to a "perverse honeycomb" and made the character the matriarchal queen bee. [59] In the 2011 TV series , Person of Interest , Foucault's panopticon is used to grasp the pressure under which the character Harold Finch suffers in the post- 9/11 United States ...
Minority Report is a 2002 American cyberpunk [6] action film [7] directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on Philip K. Dick's 1956 novella The Minority Report.The film takes place in the Washington metropolitan area in 2054, in which a specialized police department—Precrime—apprehends criminals by use of foreknowledge provided by three psychics called "precogs".
He was portrayed by Peter Lorre in Josef von Sternberg's Hollywood film version (1935), by John Hurt in a 1979 BBC mini-series adaptation, by Patrick Dempsey in a 1998 television movie, and by Georgy Taratorkin (1969), John Simm (2002), and Crispin Glover (2002). The character of Michel in Robert Bresson's Pickpocket (1959) is based on Raskolnikov.
The term, which is a portmanteau word consisting of ban and panopticon, takes its name from Michel Foucault's interpretation of the panopticon as used in Discipline and Punish and the notion of ban from international relations [2] to describe a situation where observation is used as a disciplinary tool, namely by creating profiles for people ...
The Panopticon, a novel 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
Freedom Wars [b] is a 2014 action role-playing video game developed by Dimps and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Vita.Set in the distant future where the majority of humankind is imprisoned in penal city-states known as Panopticons which wage war against one another, the game involves players cooperating to fight enemies and contribute towards their Panopticon. [8]
The tale's main characters are three anthropomorphic animals: Goatwriter, a literate goat who collects and writes tales and like Mitchell has a stammer; Mrs. Comb, his servant and cook, a hen; and Pithecanthropus, his handyman, a primitive hominid. They live in a wasteland devastated by war and inhabit a coach that travels around of its own will.
"Panopticon" is the 1st episode and season premiere of the fourth season of the American television drama series Person of Interest. It is the 69th overall episode of the series and is written by producer Erik Mountain and executive producer Greg Plageman and directed by Richard J. Lewis .