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The Relevance of “The Prisoner” to Today’s Information and Surveillance Society, by Alan N. Shapiro

April 8th, 2014 in the categories: The Prisoner

I do a media sociology of "The Prisoner." I relate "The Prisoner" to Orwell, McLuhan, Foucault, Baudrillard, and Flusser. "The Prisoner" as a literary text is at the heart of modern media theory. It is "the real deal" for understanding the information and surveillance society of 2014, as Catherine McGoohan said.