MMEDIA 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hasan M. Elahi, Gilles Deleuze, Mass Surveillance
9 Dec 2017
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Music today: eyes without a face by billy idol (metaphor for surveillance!) Post 9/11: increased surveillance in physical world and online. Two theoretical frameworks: disciplinary society/panopticon (foucault, control society (deleuze) Post 9-11 mentality has fuelled proliferation of surveillance. The most obvious and prevalent form of surveillance are cctv cameras, ubiquitous everywhere and sometimes we don"t even see them anymore. More aware of their behaviours, people modify their behaviours due to possibility of being watched (modification might not even be conscious or obvious) Foucault states that by late 19th century disciplinary power was being replaced by other mechanisms. Gilles deleuze(20th century french philosopher) charts the change in power from disciplinary societies (19th century) to control societies (20th century) Marketing is now the instrument of social control. In a control society activities and processes are organized so they can be audited tracked analyzed stored retrieved managed,etc. We have moved from confined society to dispersed. States that privacy is no longer a concern.
