Post-Panoptical – Watching Jeremy, Watching Me, Watching Jeremy https://jeremyproject.lavits.org Interacting with Jeremy Bentham's Auto-Icon at UCL Fri, 11 Dec 2015 10:41:05 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 We have all become “mobile surveillance devices”, Jeremy! https://jeremyproject.lavits.org/2015/12/11/we-have-all-become-mobile-surveillance-devices-jeremy/ Fri, 11 Dec 2015 10:38:24 +0000 http://jeremyproject.lavits.org/?p=323 We are, to the eyes of the computational and communicational systems that control most of today’s transactions, a combination of numbers and our identity (and what we do with it) is dependable on these numbers. It’s nearly impossible to “hide” from the codification as almost all the activities of our contemporary way of life are mediated by this dematerialization of people, actions, human agency, into codes in a specific system.

The network capabilities of information and communication technologies, with the possibility of having systems and devices talking to each other (IoT), and the world-wide spread use of social media, makes anyone of us a “mobile surveillance device”.

Forget about big brother, we now have little brothers. According to Zygmunt Bauman (Liquid Modernity, 2000), “Whatever else the present stage in the history of modernity is, It is also, perhaps above all, post-Panoptical”.

Day 41: We have all become "mobile surveillance devices", Jeremy!

Day 41: We have all become “mobile surveillance devices”, Jeremy!

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