Surveillance In Guy Debord's Nineteen Eighty Four

Surveillance is a feature used by the modern government. Surveillance is supposedly used by the government for preventing /investigating crimes and gathering information, however it can also be used by criminal organisations for planning and committing crimes, which is ironic. Technology allows the government to track online activities, people’s movements and communications. Most people would consider surveillance a breach of privacy and it is opposed by numerous activist groups since most authoritarian governments don’t have any domestic restrictions, which means that governments are allowed to access your information whenever they choose without relevant justification. George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty Four” warn of the negative effects of surveillance and how the government can use it to control people. It is believed if
The spectacle relates to the mass media that is said to be the spectacle at “it’s most glaring superficial manifestation." according to Debord it came into existence in the 1920s as this was the period in which public relations and advertising were introduced. A significant example of this was the campaigns by the tobacco industry developed by Edward Bernays. Bernays wrote about the “conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses." in his book Propaganda (1928).
In the society of the spectacle, the commodities have control over the consumers and workers rather than being controlled by them. Consumers are indifferent subjects that observe the spectacle. The criticism of the spectacle develops from Karl Marx’s concept of fetishism of commodities (the observation of social relationships involved in production). The critique of the society of the spectacle has a lot in common in terms of arguments as Adorno and Horkheimer and the critique of culture industry