SOC316H5 Lecture Notes - Dystopia, Totalitarianism, Cyborg
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Surveillance producing knowledge about certain populations accumulation of information away from the classical notion of someone watching someone else. Metaphor is useful for: how surveillance leads to conformity. Bentham"s panopticon someone in the middle of the prison watching every prison trying to transform the individual/prisoner. Working on the soul to train the body. Ericson: humans are born free, but are immediately monitored. But it"s less about making you a moral person increasingly constituting us as consumers. Questions: what are some implications for privacy, what do ericson and haggerty say about privacy not so much line in the sand, but something that is up for negotiation. 4. a. institutionalized mistrust: ex. schools, airports (potential suspect, mainly concerned with the prevention of violations, decentralized and triggers self-policing, active participants in their own monitoring, ex. using credit cards triggers the monitoring of your funds/transactions.
