Summer Term 2019: Surveillance 102: The Golden Age
Building on the subject matter covered in Surveillance 101, we take Gilles Deleuze’s “Postscript on the Societies of Control” as a starting point to address contemporary modes of surveillance: algorithmic, fluid, social, multifocal, networked. We’ll look at the different forms that systematic observation takes today and how it can be used towards artistic ends.
Workshops:
Hands-on Surveillance & Counter-Surveillance techniques
Archival practices
Prison field trip (still working on that – seems pretty hard to get in, too)
Mid Term Review: 4./5. June 2019
Readings:
- Gilles Deleuze – Postscript on the Societies of Control. Very short essay from 1990, available online, e.g. here or here. German translation in the Semesterapparat.
- Also check out this 20 minute video explaining the core concepts (turn off the music and it’s pretty OK).
- Shoshana Zuboff – The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. See Semesterapparat. It’s also online already if you know where to look, and pretty cheap to buy at the moment. German translation, too.
Also see all of these from last term (all still of interest):
- Exposed. Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, 2010, catalogue
- Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, 1975. English translation freely available online.
- Giorgo Agamben: What is an Apparatus? (Was ist ein Dispositiv?) PDF available online or in the Semesterapparat
- Gerhard Paul – „Video“ oder: Was haben die Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) mit Homer zu tun?
In the library:
- Randolph Lewis: Under Surveillance: Being Watched in Modern America
- CTRL [Space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance, from Bentham to Big Brother, Thomas Y. Levin, Ursula Frohne, and Peter Weibel, ed. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002)
- Surveillance and Security, Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life. Edited By Toren Monahan
- Christopher Dandeker, Surveillance,Power & Modernity
- Newell, Bryce Clayton [editor], Surveillance, Privacy and Public Space
- Vian Bakir, Sousveillance, media and strategic political communication