McLuhan – Watching Jeremy, Watching Me, Watching Jeremy https://jeremyproject.lavits.org Interacting with Jeremy Bentham's Auto-Icon at UCL Sat, 16 Jan 2016 13:09:22 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 CCTV is the message! (adapted from McLuhan) https://jeremyproject.lavits.org/2016/01/15/cctv-is-the-message-adapted-from-mcluhan/ Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:01:06 +0000 http://jeremyproject.lavits.org/?p=418 Well, it seems poor Jeremy lost his “visual memory” for good. I can’t rely on the timelapse anymore, so I will try to keep coming the minute past the hour from now on…

Today’s message was an adapted version of the famous provocation by Marshal McLuhan, “the medium is the message”. I got this idea while reading the very interesting paper “‘The footage is decisive’: Applying the thinking of Marshall McLuhan to CCTV and police misconduct” by Richard Evans in the journal Surveillance & Society.

And I was joined again by my mysterious friends with Asian hats…

Day 58: CCTV is the message! (adapted from McLuhan)

Day 58: CCTV is the message! (adapted from McLuhan)

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