Exploring the intricate connections between surveillance technology and daily life, this book delves into how these systems shape our imaginations and emotional experiences. It highlights the profound impact of media and surveillance on societal perceptions and personal feelings, offering a critical examination of their pervasive influence in contemporary culture.
Television Drama and Reflections of a Nation in Change
The book examines the interplay between heroism and national identity in contemporary British culture, focusing on how these themes are represented in British television drama. It delves into the evolving perceptions of heroes and the implications for society, highlighting the relationship between hero narratives and the state of the nation in the twenty-first century.
Stability is at the core of every discussion of order, organization or institutionalization. From an »inside« perspective, the stability of each order-constituting element is assumed. In contrast, in critical discourses instability (e. g. through ambiguity or non-control) is located at the outside of the social order as its negative. By treating this argumentative symmetrical structure as »idioms of stability and destabilization«, the articles try to rethink order: How can we describe structures from a perspective in which instability, non-control and irrationality are not contrary to ordering systems, but contribute to their stability? How might the notions of identity, knowledge and institutions in social and cultural studies be contested by this change of perspective?