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Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 12, No. 4, 681-703 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1077800406286232

Postmodern Gargoyles, Simulated Power Aesthetics

Grant Kien

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

This work incorporates a camera as participant in the showing of experiences of surveillance, exploring some effects of defining power as the circulation of signifiers. This techno-ethnographic piece moves through numerous spaces, documenting how myth and aesthetics are experienced and play in everyday life, inducing performances that ultimately appear to stabilize and further legitimate a globally reaching network of surveillance.

Key Words: surveillance technology • aesthetics • power • panopticism • simula-cra • everyday life


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