Technology, Surveillance and the Pandemic

Abstract

The basic aim of the state is maintenance and preservation of it as an entity, and the relation it shares with its subjects is the one similar to that of the shepherd and his herd, leading and protecting its subjects, but it also implies that the subjects follow the rules and regulations meant for them. Each period had a unique system of governance, till the seventeenth century pre-modern society was based on an archaic system, followed by modern system based on the penal system.1Significantly, revolutions in the domain of technology helped the state re-define its system of governance to be unique from its predecessors. The political feature of the post-eighteenth-century society was based on the general strategy of power generated through the medium of discipline, subsequently creating a huge gap that was situated between the state and its subjects, erasing the friction between them—failing to do so the state would face resistance from the lower half of the spectrum, leading to the perils of state. The idea of ruling and regulating over the individuals and the mechanisms on how it functioned has been the same, only the field of application has changed.