Surveillance Culture

The Panopticon Goes Prime-Time: How CBS’s ‘Big Brother’ Became the World’s Accidental Reality Check While the planet burns through its twenty-first-century adolescence, 16 Americans have volunteered to spend their summer locked in a soundstage bungalow, performing sincerity for cameras that never blink. CBS’s “Big Brother”—now limping into its 26th U.S. season—has become the West’s most…