Panoptic Vision of the World: Can a State of Emergency Become a Regular One?

• Authors: Katica Kulavkova

Title variants

PL

Panoptyczna wizja świata. Czy stan wyjątkowy może stać się normalnym?

Abstracts

PL

Przedmiotem uwagi jest kilka aspektów społecznych pandemii koronawirusa SARS-CoV-2, które mają niejednoznaczne i sprzeczne znaczenia: stan wyjątkowy / kryzys, środki nadzwyczajne, prawa obywatelskie i prawa / ograniczenia praw człowieka, wolność / ograniczenie wolności. Podstawowymi narzędziami interpretacyjnymi i pojęciowymi są terminy „panoptykon” i „panoptycyzm”, których archetypowe wzorce wskazują na systematyczne i systemowe niszczenie uniwersalnych praw człowieka do wolności i prywatności. Ta szkoda pojawia się poprzez legalizację nadzoru i kontroli obywateli, przez co staje się bardziej zbliżona do radykalnej inwigilacji. Pandemia jest postrzegana jako pretekst do odnowienia panoptycznej wizji świata. Współczesny pandemiczny nadzór nad obywatelami zaciera granice między tym, co realne, a tym, co wirtualne i tworzy nowe granice wolności na kilku poziomach: ruchu, mowy, pracy, komunikacji, egzystencji. Niektóre z tych ograniczeń praw i wolności człowieka dotyczą osób starszych. Analiza pokazuje niebezpieczeństwo przedłużenia i legalizacji środków nadzwyczajnych w sytuacji, gdy realnie nie ma stanu wyjątkowego. Powstaje pytanie: czy stan wyjątkowy może stać się stanem normalnym? New Normal ma moc tworzenia wyalienowanych jednostek i wyalienowanego społeczeństwa.

EN

The object of interpretation of this text is several social aspects of the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 pandemic which have equivocal and contradictory meanings: state of emergency/crisis, emergency measures, civil and human rights/restrictions to human rights, freedom/limitation of freedom. The basic interpretative and conceptual tools used are the terms ‘panopticon’ and ‘panopticism’, whose archetypal patterns point to systematic and systemic damage to the universal human rights to freedom and privacy. This damage occurs by legalizing the surveillance and control of citizens, thus becoming more akin to radical surveillance. The pandemic is seen as an excuse to renew the panoptic vision of the world. The contemporary pandemic surveillance of citizens dissolves the boundaries between the real and the virtual and creates new boundaries of freedom on several levels: movement, speech, work, communication, existence. Some of these limitations of human rights and freedoms relate to the elderly population. This analysis shows the danger of prolonging and legalizing emergency measures in circumstances when, realistically, there is no state of emergency. This poses a question: can a state of emergency become a regular state? The New Normal has the power to create alienated individuals and an alienated society.

Keywords

EN

panopticism; state of emergency; COVID-19 pandemic; human rights; surveillance; scepticism; North Macedonia

PL

panoptyzm; stan wyjątkowy; pandemia COVID-19; prawa człowieka; inwigilacja; sceptycyzm; Macedonia Północna

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Slawistyki PAN
• Journal: Slavia Meridionalis
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 22

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Katica Kulavkova

• Македонската академија на науките и уметностите [Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts], Скопје [Skopje]

• https://orcid.org/0000000340074402

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Identifiers

DOI

10.11649/sm.2710

Biblioteka Nauki

33298360