Sousveillance – Watching Jeremy, Watching Me, Watching Jeremy https://jeremyproject.lavits.org Interacting with Jeremy Bentham's Auto-Icon at UCL Fri, 08 Jan 2016 13:09:14 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 “A person watched is a person transformed” (Lyan S. Parramore) https://jeremyproject.lavits.org/2016/01/07/a-person-watched-is-a-person-transformed-lyan-s-parramore/ Thu, 07 Jan 2016 12:08:56 +0000 http://jeremyproject.lavits.org/?p=392 Inspiration today came from an interesting article by Lynn Stuart Parramore on the Lapham’s Quarterly, a suggestion posted on twitter by David Murakami Wood…

In her text, Parramore discusses how new labour biometric tracking resembles old forms of workplace surveillance from the dawn of capitalism. He cites Jeremy Bentham (and his influential brother, Samuel Bentham) to show how the panopticon had an impact on the creation and development of Taylorism as an instrument for productivism through a better shaped and “optimised” labour force (physically and mentally). New surveillance and control bionic technologies are meant to make workers, as Parramore titles her article, “happy all the time”, and obviously more productive!

Day 54: "A person watched is a person transformed" (Lyan S. Paramore) [thanks to D.M.W.]

Day 54: “A person watched is a person transformed” (Lyan S. Paramore)
[thanks to D.M.W.]

]]> Do you feel disciplined in your own prison cell, Jeremy? https://jeremyproject.lavits.org/2015/12/21/do-you-feel-disciplined-in-your-own-prison-cell-jeremy/ Mon, 21 Dec 2015 11:51:13 +0000 http://jeremyproject.lavits.org/?p=353 Who is watching whom? Is Jeremy kept in a prison cell like case, or is this his watch tower? I’ve posted a message questioning this before, and am just expanding the possibilities now…

Day 48: Do you feel disciplined in your own prison cell, Jeremy? [thanks to L.S.]

Day 48: Do you feel disciplined in your own prison cell, Jeremy?
[thanks to L.S.]

]]> Jeremy, “the soul is the prison of the body” (Foucault) https://jeremyproject.lavits.org/2015/11/19/jeremy-the-soul-is-the-prison-of-the-body-foucault/ Thu, 19 Nov 2015 21:01:26 +0000 http://jeremyproject.lavits.org/?p=281 Day 31: Jeremy, "the soul is the prison of the body" (Foucault) [thanks to G.N.]

Day 31: Jeremy, “the soul is the prison of the body” (Foucault)
[thanks to G.N.]

]]> Surveillance, sousveillance, uberveillance… perfect view from every cell https://jeremyproject.lavits.org/2015/11/09/surveillance-sousveillance-uberveillance-perfect-view-from-every-cell/ Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:38:06 +0000 http://jeremyproject.lavits.org/?p=249 Day 23: Surveillance, sousveillance, uberveillance... perfect view from every cell [thanks to B.D.]

Day 23: Surveillance, sousveillance, uberveillance… perfect view from every cell
[thanks to B.D.]

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