Quoth Felix Stalder:
The concept of the panopticon has been very popular ever since
Foucault elevated it to the rank of a central metaphor for modernity
in Discipline and Punishment (1975). And the NSA revelations seem
to confirm its usefulness once again.
It seems to me that the term
The Institute of Network Cultures presents: MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives
Over the past few years, while the economic downturn endures and
budget cuts prevail, we have witnessed the emergence and rise of
alternative payment systems and revenue models in digital media.
Online bartering sites, a
Felix:
Some people are using the concept of ban-opticon to express this.
Correct. The principles involved have been in force for the past 100+
years -- long before *digital* systems. In the original 19th-century
Benthamite Panopticon, the key idea was that the inmates had no idea
if anyone
Felix:
Some people are using the concept of ban-opticon to express this.
Correct. The principles involved have been in force for the past 100+
years -- long before *digital* systems. In the original 19th-century
Benthamite Panopticon, the key idea was that the inmates had no idea
if anyone
hi,
Am 11.10.2013 um 10:19 schrieb Felix Stalder:
So surveillance has been decentralized and turned into task performed
by the prison inmates themselves, and make into a precondition for
staying inside: think credit ratings, facebook friends, google ranks
etc. You have to make yourself
sure, amateur DIT surveillance defines fb and credit, but lets not forget
the enthused amateur surveillance defining fame. or fashion. or any of
those. (i'm still convinced that the nsa is modelling a new version of
capital..
louis fourteenth enthused about greed as a mechanism for policing the
This realization per se is pretty much useless, as are endless
ruminations regarding how free we were, once upon time. The old Marxist
postulate that awareness will save the species is blatantly false - look
around you.
These technologies came to rule the world because their proponents made
Dear Burak
so nice to here from you. what do u think about Turing Complete User
article?
and thank you for reminding about user labor! a great project indeed.
did it develop any further?
do u think u can formulate some write for userrights that would link and
remind about this initiative. i
On 10/11/2013 01:46 PM, newme...@aol.com wrote:
Correct. The principles involved have been in force for the past
100+ years -- long before *digital* systems. In the original
19th-century Benthamite Panopticon, the key idea was that the
inmates had no idea if anyone was watching, so they
It becomes a kind of Borges-esque -- in the future, everyone on Earth
will be watching everyone else on Earth, at the same time, all the
time.
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:24 AM, chris mann chrs...@gmail.com wrote:
sure, amateur DIT surveillance defines fb and credit, but lets not forget
the
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