Ett Fängelselikt Samhälle...? : en diskursiv betraktelse

Sammanfattning: My essay is fundamentally about an idea. It could even be placed in the study of the history of ideas by the fact that it could be seen as if I am trying to reflect upon how one single idea can get a strong societal and historical impact. How thoughts, visions and then inventions are constructing societies and everything that derives from them. In my text I try to illuminate and connect social theory to our social reality and by using discourse (theory) analysis I try to study central terms in the discourse of surveillance. The question which is of social psychological interest would be that of how the individual in dialectical relation to the surrounding society is free and how he then would get inflected by this surveillance. What if the society could be looked upon as a prison or a reformatory centre, and the individual is not that free as supposed by many post modern non-structurist streams of thought? Not only do I want to illuminate but also try and come to some conclusions at the end. What consequences could the big panoptic machinery bring upon the citizens of society in which it is applied and under constant ongoing and development?