the name itselfs states that it is optical. Auditive would be extremely difficult, olfactory impossible, tactile pretty hard....

One thing however has been written about namely the social media variant. Especially in ethics publications and dystopian philosophy. I should have to look who did but I guess it was Sunstein or Pariser. Anyhow senses, no.

Dear Alex. If you extend the concept of “panopticon” and consider that Foucault is talking about a deployment involving Knwoledge and power, a device —of visibility, in this case— and a control mechanism (and not just an spatial architecture for prisons based on watching), then you can also take into account other devices of control concerning sound or tact, for example. As a matter of fact, discipline is always a microphysical device of tact controlling, that manages the ways of encounter between bodies; prison also confines tactile experiences, and stablishes who can touch or be touched. In his work Noise. The political economy of music, Jacques Attali explores the devices of control of sound (we could talk about regimes of sonority) that allow to perform a social control through the organization of music an the economy of noise (symbolizing, harmonizing, reapeting and imposing it, or even composing it). Our societies of control have also developed some kind of political economy of smelling and a whole market of odors (not only managed by the perfume industry).

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Deborah Lupton and others have recently discussed self-surveillance in terms of wearable tech (fitness devices, etc), what some call "the quantifed self."

Dear Alex, in his book Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders in the Neoliberal Age (Zero Books, 2012), Dan Hassler-Forest deal with the idea you suggest. Chapter 4 is entitled: "The panoptic superhero: surveillance, control and visibility in post-9/11 popular culture".

This is the quote that opens the chapter, from the film Superman Returns (2006):

Superman: Listen; what do you hear?

Lois Lane: Nothing.

Superman:  I hear everything. You wrote that the world doesn't need a savior, but

every day I hear people crying out for one.

Panopticon has become here "panaural", and of course Superman with its surveillance instinct is a tool of control. Batman, who is merely human,  does the same thing in The Dark Knight, listening all mobile phones of Gotham (30 millions) in order to locate a terrorist called Joker.

Thanks to mobile technology, panaural is not only an idea or a fictional situation, it is a reality in advanced societies.

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For my Ethnography on political violence in my country, I use the idea of the Amazonian jungle as a social Panopticon: in this region, people are afraid of speaking to loud, or being to conspicuous in some landscapes fearing the immanent control deployed by the guerrillas, the army or even their neighbors.  The jungle is a kind of frame that allows social control by the aforementioned forces: nobody know what or whom is in there.