Article
Visibility Is a Trap? Dimensions of Surveillance and Its Effects on Culture Today
Pacific Coast Philology
(2019)
Abstract
Within the context of the fluidity of our culture today, this article presents a critique of the connection between modernity and surveillance in contemporary critical theory, literature, and other media. The analysis of George Orwell’s 1984, Dave Eggers’s The Circle, and Michel Houellebecq’s The Possibility of an Island illustrates the shift from a panoptic kind of surveillance (and modernity) to a liquid kind, and shows dimensions that offer alternative vistas to dark narratives.
Keywords
- modernity,
- surveillance,
- control,
- panopticism,
- adiophorization,
- transparency
Disciplines
Publication Date
2019
DOI
10.5325/pacicoasphil.54.2.0117
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2019 The Pennsylvania State University
Citation Information
Andrea Gogröf. "Visibility Is a Trap? Dimensions of Surveillance and Its Effects on Culture Today" Pacific Coast Philology Vol. 54 Iss. 2 (2019) p. 117 - 134 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/andrea_gogrof/4/