Timelapse video is back to normal… well, at least from the 17/12/2015!
A little message about one of the most comprehensive surveillance devices of our time, Facebook.
Day 46: “Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine” (Richard Stallman)
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!
This was a message to try and call attention to my public lecture on the same day for the Situating Architecture seminar series. The lecture was great with good attendance and clever questions at the end. Thanks to the situating architecture people and all those who attended!
Day 38: Splintering surveillance and new forms of territory (www.bit.ly/urblab)
“Splintering Surveillance as a New Territorial Layer?” (Situating Architecture Lecture Series, UCL), Dec 7th 7pm at The Bartlett School of Architecture.
Click here for more information about this talk.
Day 36: “Splintering surveillance and invisible territories”. I’ll mention you, Jeremy! bit.ly/urblab
More interested in urban territories, cameras and surveillance? Check this out: “Private video monitoring of public spaces: The construction of new invisible territories”
Day 34: What kind of territory is defined by the gaze of your eyes (cameras), Jeremy?
Experimenting with other media. It hasn’t worked very well, though!
Day 26: Jeremy, forget about Big Brother. You should fear Little Brothers