I'm going to show a segment of the 60s television show _The Prisoner_ with Patrick McGoohan. I think that the show connects some of last week's discussions (namely, those on surveillance) with this week's topics (vurtuality). The television show is about a spy (who has resigned and is in a sort of dystopic prison for spies--the concept for the show is explained in a miniplay that rolls with the opening credits, so if you haven't seen it, you'll get the idea. This prison takes the form of a place called "The Village," a collection of buildings that are both fantastic and generic, situated on island--it looks like no place and every place at the same time. His name has been changed to"Number 6", and his captors, led by Number 2 (a different character in each episode), demand to know why he's resigned. At the end of each episode, he vows never to tell and exclaims, "I am not a number, I am a free man!" and the sequence ends with him running wildly on a moonlit beach. Clearly, this series deals not only with surveilliance anxiety, but also anxieties haing to do wtih virtuality. Presumably, McGoohan's character has the necessities of life: food, water, shelter. But, his lack of freedom consumes his every motive. And, that lack of freedom is embodied not only in his literal entrapment, but in a life that is compulsory on every level: he must exist as a number, perform the banal activities that everyone else performs, listen to the same radio programs that everyone else listens to.