Essays about: "Michaela Padden"

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  1. 1. Big Brother is Watching You: Panoptic Control in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Author : Michaela Padden; [2014]
    Keywords : George Orwell; Nineteen Eighty-Four; Jeremy Bentham; Michel Foucault; panopticon; panoptic control; panopticism; George Orwell; 1984; Jeremy Bentham; Michel Foucault; panoptisk kontroll;

    Abstract : George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, first published in 1949, is a vision of socialism gone wrong. The setting of Oceania is a world ruled over by an oligarchical collective, “The Party,” which wields absolute power through a formidable combination of surveillance technology and the operation of the principles of “panoptic control,” a concept drawn from Jeremy Bentham’s model prison design of the late 1700s and revived by Foucault in the mid 1970s. READ MORE