Panorama de Lilia Hassaine : la Transparence comme tragédie de l’injustice

Abstract In her 2023 novel Panorama, Lilia Hassaine envisions a futuristic society governed by a radical principle of total transparency, supposedly designed to ensure absolute justice. However, beneath the illusion of harmony and security unfolds a contemporary tragedy of injustice, where permanent visibility becomes the driving force of a new, silent, systemic violence. This article examines the mechanisms of this dystopian order, in which justice, subjected to the collective gaze, becomes a spectacle, and the pursuit of truth gives way to the tyranny of opinion. Through an interdisciplinary approach that draws on ancient philosophy (Aristotle, Plato), sociology (Durkheim, Goffman), and contemporary critical theory (Girard, Han, Baudrillard), the study reveals the sacrificial logic underlying Panorama. Far from eradicating violence, Transparency displaces and amplifies it: it replaces judgment with emotion, investigation with vengeance, and truth with consensus. By rejecting opacity, it also suppresses catharsis, depriving society of any symbolic outlet for human tension. By analyzing the spectacularization of daily life, the disappearance of intimacy, and the figure of the scapegoat, this article shows that Transparency, while claiming to embody the ideal of justice, paradoxically becomes its negation. Hassaine’s dystopia offers a striking reflection on contemporary distortions of justice—where greater visibility breeds fragility.