Utopian theorists often speak about the merits of reading utopian fiction in order to reimagine and rebuild a better world, but dystopian fiction is often overlooked. This is, in my view, misguided because dystopian fiction, like utopian fiction, diagnoses issues with the present, inspires activism and resistance, and, in the twenty-first century, often presents ideas of how to effect positive change through collective activism. As speculative literary genres concerned with world-building, utopian and dystopian fiction have inherent sociological concerns. These texts can therefore be utilised by sociologists and other researchers beyond the arts and humanities. Speculative fiction is important to the field of surveillance studies not only because surveillance is a major theme in these literary texts but also because their formal properties provide us with the language, imagery, and feelings associated with being under surveillance. Twenty-first-century utopian and dystopian fiction has not been thoroughly examined by surveillance scholars. Analysis of utopian and dystopian fiction in this field has also focused on texts set in, and written by authors from, the global north. Considering the plethora of dystopian novels in and beyond the global north published in recent years that discuss surveillance, the neglect of the study of these texts to date is an oversight.

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投机小说、社会学和监视研究：迈向监视想象的方法论

乌托邦理论家经常谈论阅读乌托邦小说以重新构想和重建更美好世界的好处，但反乌托邦小说往往被忽视。在我看来，这是被误导的，因为反乌托邦小说，就像乌托邦小说一样，诊断当前问题，激发行动主义和抵抗，并且在 21 世纪，经常提出如何通过集体行动主义实现积极变革的想法。作为关注世界建构的思辨文学体裁，乌托邦和反乌托邦小说具有内在的社会学关注。因此，这些文本可以被社会学家和艺术和人文学科以外的其他研究人员使用。投机小说对监视研究领域很重要，不仅因为监视是这些文学文本的主要主题，还因为它们的形式属性为我们提供了与被监视相关的语言、图像和感觉。监视学者尚未彻底研究 20 世纪的乌托邦和反乌托邦小说。对这一领域的乌托邦和反乌托邦小说的分析也集中在来自全球北方的作者所写的文本上。考虑到近年来在全球北部内外出版的大量反乌托邦小说讨论监视，迄今为止对这些文本研究的忽视是一种疏忽。监视学者尚未彻底研究 20 世纪的乌托邦和反乌托邦小说。对这一领域的乌托邦和反乌托邦小说的分析也集中在来自全球北方的作者所写的文本上。考虑到近年来在全球北部内外出版的大量反乌托邦小说讨论监视，迄今为止对这些文本研究的忽视是一种疏忽。监视学者尚未彻底研究 20 世纪的乌托邦和反乌托邦小说。对这一领域的乌托邦和反乌托邦小说的分析也集中在来自全球北方的作者所写的文本上。考虑到近年来在全球北部内外出版的大量反乌托邦小说讨论监视，迄今为止对这些文本研究的忽视是一种疏忽。