Canary
“the deep strangeness of the present moment: everybody knows what’s going on, and nobody can do anything about it.” James Bridle
theory
Medienkatastrophe: Dirk Baecker – die Kunst der nächsten Gesellschaft
Dirk Baecker on media revolutions and the one we’re currently in. What does it mean for art and the arts when machines start to take part in the communication between humans? What does it mean if you can begin to observe something akin to communication between machines? As a sociologist, he has written extensively on the subject. See […]
Rudolf Frieling’s talk
For those that missed it: Rudolf Frieling’s talk is online now, too.
Geert Lovink / Medienkatastrophe talk
A State of the Platform Address By Geert Lovink 20 April 2017, 18h, KHM Aula This lecture deals with the changes over the years from media, via networks to platforms. What does it mean that the internet has become infrastructure, penetrating society, from taxis to hotels to agriculture and healthcare, going well beyond the media […]
Readings for the Winter Term 2016/17: Systematic Observation and Recall
Required reading for the Winter Term 2016/17 Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, especially the “Docile Bodies” chapter. English translation freely available online: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=de&q=Michel Foucault Discipline and Punish filetype:pdf (The German translation: Überwachen und Strafen is in the Semesterapparat, and there is a second copy in the library that you can take home: PHI I.1.2 – […]
Research paper: Mass Surveillance Silences Minority Opinions
Under Surveillance: Examining Facebook’s Spiral of Silence Effects in the Wake of NSA Internet Monitoring Research paper by Elizabeth Stoycheff Abstract: Since Edward Snowden exposed the National Security Agency’s use of controversial online surveillance programs in 2013, there has been widespread speculation about the potentially deleterious effects of online government monitoring. This study explores how […]
Big Other: The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff on how we became Google’s slaves. A must-read. Big other: surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information civilization Update: Joscha sent in a better link: The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism German translation: Überwachungskapitalismus Nearly 70 years ago historian Karl Polanyi observed that the market economies of the 19th and 20th centuries depended […]
Thinking about surveillance of our most intimate activities
Law Professor Karen Levy writes about the rise of surveillance in our most intimate activities — love, sex, romance — and how it affects those activities. This article examines the rise of the surveillant paradigm within some of our most intimate relationships and behaviors — those relating to love, romance, and sexual activity — and […]
Guest lecture: Nils Zurawski
“The omnipresent gaze? Surveillance between visibility and the management of norms.” Guest lecture by Dr. Nils Zurawski Institut für kriminologische Sozialforschung at Uni Hamburg, founder of the Surveillance Studies network www.surveillance-studies.org Wednesday, 13 January 2016 Surveillant Architectures Group room 2, Filzengraben 2a KHM Cologne Upcoming conference in Barcelona: http://www.surveillance-studies.net/?p=1162