Fwiw I think @JuliaAngwin and her team have done some of the best public facing work on surveillance & digital tech, esp in regard to the criminal justice system. So maybe give her and her new @team_markup a follow if you’re inclined
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Foucault on his own might not have put me off Alexa etc but approximately 75 viewings of the Terminator movies (mostly 2) in my formative years, plus a lifetime of reading science fiction have made me entirely uninterested in having something like that in my house.
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It’s true! Decades of dystopian sci fi don’t seem to have had much effect either (except for maybe serving as inspiration for tech companies)
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Entertainment as habituation.
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Normalization of privacide.
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the field of CS, which produces those who will later create software for alexa, facial recognition, etc., is very walled off from other fields (starting in undergrad!). there's little curiosity about software's context in & impact on our society.
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We need tech ethics as a field of study worse than we need medical ethics.
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If people can't read your work because of paywalls they are never going to learn the lessons you might teach them.
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That was the joke.
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I have done my part by reading "Discipline and Punish" at the neighborhood pool but people seem to give me my space.
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The re-thinking of Foucault, a persistent theme within the field of Surveillance Studies, has exposed a more nuanced relationship between the watcher and the watched--that may explain this indifference. Likewise, dystopia may not be a warning but a means of containing fear.
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I think the indifference is due to the fact that pretty much no member of the general public is going to read Foucault or anyone writing based on his work. People are going to care about the press exposing real abuses, not anyone writing about theory.
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The lecture capture at my old uni is called Panopticon. I am not joking.
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Right?! I could never decide if the name was a sick joke or just really obtuse...
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It’s called Panopto, not Panopticon.
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Bad enough, isn’t it?
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Well, the meaning is not the same. Panoptic: the point from where all can be seen in one view. Panoptos (Greek): seen by all. Foucault is not everywhere.
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I’d argue that Ponopto does both, Foucault or not :)
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Don’t you see? We will exist forever thanks to Panopto. One day, they will play our lectures in a loop on the streets to control the masses.pic.twitter.com/0Vi6YjOHb3
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That is not... A good reading
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