Reflecting Panopticism And Surveillance: An Inter Textual Study of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Selected Fiction

Abstract

In the global complexity of the postmodern world, humanity experienced stupendous steps forward toward the unification of people and cultures for the sake of development. However, these advancement have led to the humongous situation whereby individuals are being pushed towards the edge of the society. Science fiction technology has come to pass in the society due to the enhanced application of technologies that are seen from the movies, for instance ubiquities apps, cameras as well as intelligences. However, the intrusive monitoring that is brought about by these technologies has encroached into the hitherto liberating liberty of people and replaced it with the fear of constant danger, which is akin to being confined in cages in an apparently open setting. As a result, people become surrounded by surveillance systems that control their actions and steadily push them away from other people. This research study proposes an analysis of panopticism and surveillance in the context of the selected novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun, and to situate it within the hallmarks of sociological theory by Michel Foucault. The objective of this study is to explain more about the postmodernist concept of technological innovations, surveillance, and the consequent social marginalization as presented by the novel.

Key words: panopticism, surrvillance, Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun, Fiction