Literature and The Arts
- In Gabriel García Márquez's novella, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the Vicario brothers spend three years in the "panopticon of Riohacha" awaiting trial for the murder of Santiago Nasar.
- Angela Carter includes a critique of the Panopticon prison system during the Siberian segment of her novel Nights at the Circus.
- Charles Stross's novel Glasshouse features a technology-enabled panopticon as the novel's primary location.
- In the British science fiction series Doctor Who, an assembly hall in the citadel of the Time Lords–who observe the whole universe without anyone in the universe knowing–is called the "Panopticon."
- In DC Comics' JLA: Earth 2, the Crime Syndicate of Amerika operates from a lunar base known as the Panopticon, from which they routinely observe everyone and everything on Earth-Three.
- Although not directly named, the telescreens which are omnipresent in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four of which "there was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment... you had to live... in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinised" are based on the founding principle of the Panopticon.
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