Project Beta Presentation

Surveillance

Project Beta 

Pitch Re-cap

Sovereign

forms of surveillance (Toby Miller)

Disciplinary

society (Michel Foucault)

'The Society of Control' (Gilles Deleuze)

The light is now on the audience (Jean Baudrillard)

Obfuscation of power (The Matrix movie)

Implications for democracy (Victor Pelevin)

Sovereign Surveillance

Visual

Exemplary

(Foucault & torture in public Sq.)

External

to the individual (walled city)

Physical/empirical world

Premised on global State system, Westphalia

(Toby Miller & Zizi Papacharissi)

Disciplinary Society

Internalised

self surveillance, embodied

Surveilling each other

for the State (morally/ethically/legally)

Panopticon – visual observation overlayed with imagined observation

Discrete sites

of State control eg. School, hospital, barracks, prison

(Michel Foucault)

Surveillance & Hierarchy

Surveillance seen as negative in this domain

Social stratifications relating to surveillance/scrutiny (The surveillant assemblage – Haggerty & Ericson)

McGregor Wise on Individualism, Identity & Mobility (in Seeing through The Truman Show)

Paul Varilio writes about perception & our enslavement to the 'visual field', also inertia

'The Societies of Control'

Gilles Deleuze 'Postscript on the Societies of Control' & 'dividuals'

Jean Baudrillard 'Simulacra & Simulations'

A move from visual to sensory surveillance, peeling back ideology to reveal 'the real'

eg. TOR, The Onion

eg. Julian Assange interview with Google Schmidt & Cohen, complicit with US govt.

Graham & Wood, 'Digitising Surveillance'

Control & The Audience

The audience becomes the product

Ego

 & distraction

Intense

advertising integration

Forming habits of consumption

McGregor Wise (Seeing Through the Truman Show)

Control & The Audience

Benford reading 'The Error of our Ways...' (automation GPS vs. manual)

 

Both can co-exist, awareness of audience

Blast Theory & my seminar questionnaire

 

Rhizomatic Surveillance

'Rhizomes are plants which grow in surface extensions through interconnected vertical root systems'

Expanding 'uses' & linking new combinations

Algorithms

Graham & Wood (Digitising Surveillance)

Levelling hierarchies, no boundaries or centre

Stepping 'outside' our own subjectivity

Haggerty & Ericson, 'The Surveillant Assemblage'

Control & Power

The Matrix movies

How do we define 'reality'?

The 'visual eye' or 'mind's eye' or sense?

Which 'space' is most relevant?

Omon Ra, Victor Pelevin (perception)

Democracy

1648

Peace of Westphalia, Germany

Western imposed & dominated

Discrete 'prime units' (Parsons) of geographical space (countries), sovereignty (nation)

More recently UN, WTO, World Bank etc.

Democracy & Freedom

Is it democratic to have what it means to be free decided and managed for us?

The contradiction of democracy in the global world?

How to define democracy & where is its 'space'? Should this be negotiable through time?

Democracy is tied with our notions of humanity

How would/does this effect our identity?

McGregor Wise, 'Seeing Through the Truman Show'

Question:

Is it surveillance itself which has in fact enabled

us to see that this is a conversation from which

we have previously been excluded?

Blogger & Twitter

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/peregrine5

Blogger:

http://digc302.blogspot.com.au/

Other Theorists

Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri

, 'Empire'

William Burroughs

, 'The Limits of Control'

Bernard Stiegler

, 'Economies of Contribution'

Maurizio Lazzarato

, 'The Making of the Indebted Man' & 'Immaterial Labour'

Also Greg Seigworth