24, Surveillance and Compromised Spaces of Democratic Practice

• In Event: Scholar to Scholar II

Abstract

Using recent theorization on surveillance and cities, I argue that the Fox television show 24 utilizes a rhetoric of immanent threat which is manifested in a tension between technological utopianism and skepticism. This rhetoric relies on two key concepts to effectively create the threat of immanent danger and at the same time works to strip away the workings of democratic practice from everyday life

Author

• Michael Delnero, Bowling Green State Univ