"This volume, which consists of selected papers from the Surveillance Society Culture Conference held at the University of Gottingen in 2016...." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Surveillance -- a complex relationship / Bernhard H.F. Taureck -- Gazing back at the monster -- a critical posthumanist intervention on surveillance culture, sousveillance and the lifelogged self / Florian Zappe -- Too much information : self-monitoring and confessional culture / Barbel Harju -- Death by data : identification and dataveillance in Gary Shteyngart's Super sad true love story / Felix Haase -- Flickers of vision : surveillance and the uncertainty paradigm in Dave Eggers's The circle / Birgit Dawes -- The Black box of humanism : surveillance, the spy narrative, and literary form / Andrew S. Gross -- Rap vs. Big Brother : the conscious and the comical / Silke Jarvenpaa -- The art of surveillance : surveying the lives and works of Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei / Hugh Davies -- Paranoia and surveillance in Andrew Dominik's film The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford / Marek Paryz -- Mythologies of violence in American police videos / Caren Myers Morrison -- Afterword / Garrett Stewart.
Summary:
"What only a few decades ago would have been considered a totalitarian nightmare seems to have become reality: Surveillance practices and technologies have infiltrated all aspects of our lives, forcing us to reconsider established notions of privacy, subjectivity, and the status of the individual in society. The United States is central to contemporary concerns about surveillance. American companies are at the forefront of developing surveillance technologies; and government agencies, in the name of security and law and order, are monitoring our words and actions more than ever before. This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the implications of what many consider to be a far-reaching reaching social, political, and cultural transformation"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Contributions to English and American literary studies (CEALS), 2366-5068 ; vol. 3
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