Mark Tribe: Net Art Seminar
 

Seminar
Columbia University School of the Arts
Spring 2004


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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