Surveillance in the work of Philip K. Dick: Identities, desires and social conflicts
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he article examines how surveillance, in Philip K. Dick’s work, allows actors and institutions: a) to construct identities, b) to manage desires, and c) to establish areas of disputes and conflicts of power. Surveillance sometimes appears as a mechanism that serves as domination and social control, and at other times as a device of resistance that creates spaces of resistance and social autonomy. Therefore, surveillance can be used for civil and anti-civil purposes. The faces of vigilance in Dick’s work allow us to understand how it develops in democratic and differentiated societies, unlike the metaphor of the Orwellian “Big Brother” developed in a context where an ideology and a totalitarian political regime prevail.References
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