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New surveillancethe story about us and a prison
Jeremy Bentham
• The liberal philosopher (you didn’t know this)!
• The main idea was “the greatest happiness principle,” but who cares.
• Unfortunately for all of us, he also was an architect.
• He created the model of the ideal prison, and you can see it on the next slide.
But we better put it this way: he has been creating design of the ideal prison for 16
years (the hard worker, right?)
the panopticon
Meet your ultimate evil of modernity…
observer’s tower
cells
cells
cells
…and its foundation in the same time.
they simply stretched the
Bentham’s concept all over the western civilization (and not
only).
then story of western world can be expressed in one sentence:
one hundred years of creativity and innovations TM
“We create to spy, we spy to create”
Michael Foucault• If someone did a great job to ruin
Bentham reputation — Foucault did.
• But as you probably know it was a right thing to do as it is an ubiquitous prison we are talking about.
• For Foucault the panopticon is a basis for perfect power distribution with a heavy focus on individuals.
• The regime of vision, when someone is a supervisor and a superman because of it and you… well you are just you.
The discipline appeared as a critical concept here. It was a time when
humanities changed everything (again)
What happened next?
What you about to see is a sum of concepts that should help you
to study contemporary surveillance
BureaucracyMax Weber
It was always here, even before the concept of panopticon, but it goes in line with this concept very well. The main idea
is to write everything down
End of panopticon
Jean Baudrillard
The main idea here is that the panopticon is obvious and nobody cares about it
anymore
NonopticonSiva Vaidhyanathan
The main idea here is that digital surveillance is not obvious for everyone. It
is almost an antithesis to Baudrillard’s theory
Panopticon is still hereA few good men
The stories are not true. The classic surveillance is alive and well. By the way,
that is not a contradiction at all as all depends on your perspective
BanopticonDavid Lyon and
Zygmunt Bauman
The most interesting part. It is when you create a board and guard it. Like a region restriction on DVD or the fact that you can’t change your device (and somebody can)
Liquid surveillance
David Lyon and Zygmunt Bauman
Authors mean that the contemporary surveillance is everywhere and we barely
can notice its presence. We also don’t know where its limits
Society of control
Gilles Deleuze
The main idea here is that machines (from ATM to Siri) now control people everywhere
and by universal mechanisms
SynopticonZygmunt Bauman
According to a classic panopticon concept the one was watching everybody
else. In a reality TV case everybody is watching the one
Thank you for attention