Net Art Session
11: Monday, April 5, 2004
Topic
Privacy and Surveillance
Class Plan
+ Presentations
+ Discuss readings
+ Critique mid-term projects
+ Discuss final projects, form groups
Required Readings
+ CTRL [SPACE]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother,
edited by Levin, Frohne and Weibel. MIT Press, 2002 - Available in course
packet.
Peter Weibel: Pleasure
and the Panoptic Principle (pp.
207 – 223)
Slavoj
Zizek: Big Brother, or, the Triumph of the Gaze over the Eye (pp.
224 – 227)
Victor
Burgin: Jenni’s Room: Exhibitionism and Solitude (pp.
228 - 235)
Recommended Readings
+ Richard
Stallman: "Can you trust your computer?"
+ "Civil
Liberties and the War on Terrorism," by
Ethan Bronner. New
York Times Book Review, February 22, 2004 - Available
as class file.
Files
Civil Liberties
and the War on Terrorism, by Ethan Bronner
"Civil
Liberties and the War on Terrorism," by Ethan Bronner
New
York Times Book Review, February 22, 2004
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