"THE WHOLE EARTH AS VILLAGE": A CHRONOTOPIC ANALYSIS OF MARSHALL McLUHAN'S "GLOBAL VILLAGE" AND PATRICK McGOOHAN'S THE PRISONER

摘要: Marshall McLuhan's "global village", and his theories on communications technology, in conjunction with Patrick McGoohan's television series The Prisoner (ATV, 1967-1968) are explored this thesis. Prisoner, brainchild of McGoohan, is about the abduction confinement a British government agent imprisoned within impenetrable boundaries benign but totalitarian city -state called "The Village". purpose imprisonment for extraction information regarding resignation as spy. McLuhan originally popularized phrase "the global village" Gutenberg Galaxy: Making o/the Topographic Man (1962), asserting that, new electronic interdependence recreates world image (p. 31). This thesis argues that valid parallels exist between conception "village", manifested village. comprehensive methodological stratagem includes "mosaic" approach, Mikhail Bakhtin's concept ofthe "chronotope", well Foucauldian genealogicallhistorical discourse analysis. In process deconstructing texts products 1960s, an historical "constellation" (to use Walter Benjamin's concept) same present has been executed. By employing synthesized methodology, conjunctions have made series' main themes bureaucracy dictatorship, perversion science freedom illusion, individual opposition to collective. A thorough investigation village will determine whether or not and/or McGoohan visualize enslaving technological reality.