Abstract

ARTEAGA BOTELLO, Nelson. Metamorfosis de la vigilancia: literatura y sociedad de 1984 a Neuromante. Culturales [online]. 2014, vol.2, n.1, pp.161-186. ISSN 2448-539X.

This paper analyzes how surveillance is an issue of some literary texts of the twentieth-century science fiction, and how are constructed and articulated forms of power, domination, and resistance through surveillance. It aims to show the meaning given to surveillance in these narratives, as well as examining how actors negotiate, resist, and use it in order to establish some autonomy from it. It is the literary treatment on surveillance which allows projection of idealized social relationships and enables a set of representations of actors and social events taking place today. So this creates frames that distinguish as opposed, authoritarian dynamics that are relevant to the modeling of our democracies.

Keywords : surveillance; totalitarian societies; control societies; heterotopias; dystopias.

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