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What does panoptic mean?

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Adjective
  1. All-seeing; comprehensive, inclusive.
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This situation reminds me of Foucault's notion of the panoptic, the all-seeing eye capable of watching all areas at once, thus ensuring compliance and control.
We hear over and over again about global systems and panoptic vision on the one hand and genome chains and nano-entities on the other.
The Office serves as the national coordinator for the panoptic governance and administration of the WHMIS program in Canada.
We are not yet an entirely panoptic age, and filming a body remains a matter of taking a defined number of shots of it.
As a former correctional officer and now an academic, I am fortunate to have a panoptic view of this position.
In the face of panoptic surveillance operations, C-51 in effect trumps privacy protection laws.

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