ABSTRACT
For the very end of myths is to immobilise the world: they must suggest and mimic a universal order which has fixated once and for all the hierarchy of possessions. Thus, everyday and everywhere, man is stopped by myths, referred by them to this motionless prototype which lives in his place, stifles him in the manner of a huge internal parasite and assigns to his activity the narrow limits within which he is allowed to suffer without upsetting the world. (Barthes, 1973, pp. 1556)
Introduction: CCTV as a symbol of the contemporary British city?
