randommm

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   by randommm 9y ago

   I sincerely doubt that anything that places the 'panopticon' in the center of the analysis will be able to point us the path that leads us out of the problem. The discourse of ubiquitous surveillance (or less political: observatio
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   by randommm 9y ago

   Sure. But why this urge to rewrite history then? Just because Foucault is the grandfather or surveillance studies? Why forget all these older and more fruitful discourses?
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   by randommm 9y ago

   It is obviously bogus that Foucault raised that issue in 1975. For example Erving Goffman introduced the term "Total Institution", which implies total surveillance already in 1961. Subsequently, there have been many public reports