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- adjective including everything visible in one view
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Examples
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And even when we're not literally getting taped on an I-phone or video, we've by now internalized the wary, jittery, self-censoring instincts that the panoptical of our age promotes, and that cripple our bullshit capacities.
Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: The Bullshit Paradox Ph.D. Pamela Haag 2011
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But bullshit's natural habitat is also under stress with the panoptical of YouTube and I-phones and their techno-kin reality TV is bullshit's "artistic" cognate.
Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: The Bullshit Paradox Ph.D. Pamela Haag 2011
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A panoptical model was used, and its premise tested through extension into these communal spaces.
Surveillance: whose territory is a virtual world anyway? 2008
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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.
Microsoft on the Side of the Angels glyn moody 2008
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Critics could say this is like one modern form of “panoptical” monitoring.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » “talking” system to bark orders at those involved in criminal behavior 2006
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Any causal or panoptical hypothesis put forth by some worthy, therefore, needs to be scanned for its level of inspiration.
Archive 2007-03-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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Any causal or panoptical hypothesis put forth by some worthy, therefore, needs to be scanned for its level of inspiration.
Toe the Mind-of-Light line Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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Encyclopedic and panoptical in his enumerations, Bhaskar deserves a closer look, paradigmatically as well as personally.
Archive 2006-12-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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Encyclopedic and panoptical in his enumerations, Bhaskar deserves a closer look, paradigmatically as well as personally.
Roy Bhaskar deserves a closer look Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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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.
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