AN ESSAY ON THE CONTEMPORARY CONTROL OF CITIES AND CITIZENS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36661/2448-1092.2006v3n5.12781Keywords:
Gated cities, Archteture of fear, Simulacrum, Surveillance, Controled citizenAbstract
In the forties, when George Orwell published the book "1984", the world couldn't believe that this fiction would become so real, in a very fast time. The contemporary cities submit themselves and the citizens to practices and immaterial ways to assure his control, rebuilding not only the classical Foucault's Panopticon, but a different one, with amazing forms of defensive architecture, fortified enclaves, simulating scenery, private and thematic controlled spaces, and catching citizens by intimidation and persuasion. The walls of exclusion are no longer just visible, but invisible too. Who or what is it for? Under what kind of logic does it work? Reveal and discuss these processes of control are the objectives of the present essay about the surveillant cities and at the same time cities under surveillance.
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