All-seeing All-knowing
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Spring term: CHS College-wide Programme
All-seeing, All-knowing, Friday 7 February
Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre (LT3), Battersea Campus
Convened by Sarah Teasley and Monika Parrinder
Recommended reading and projects
- Dave Eggers, The Circle (Knopf/McSweeney, 2013)
- Kelly Gates, Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance (NYU Press, 2011)
- Irma van der Ploeg, 'The Body as Data in the Age of Information' in Kirstie Ball, Kevin D. Haggerty and David Lyon (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies (Routledge, 2012)
- Ian Kerr, Valerie M. Steeves and Carole Lucock, Lessons from the Identity Trail: Anonymity, Privacy and Identity in a Networked Society (Oxford University Press, 2009)
- Robert H Blank, Intervention in the Brain: Politics, Policy, and Ethics (MIT Press, 2013)
- Malcolm McCullough, Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information (The MIT Press, 2013)
- Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey, Evil Media (The MIT Press, 2012)
- Luciano Floridi, The Philosophy of Information (Oxford University Press, 2011)
- Victor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier, Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think (Eamon Dolan/Mariner, 2013)
- Zygmunt Bauman and David Lyon, Liquid Surveillance: A Conversation (Polity, 2012)
Projects
- http://futureeverything.org/ongoing-projects/chattr/ - a design experiment that sharing online private conversations of visitors to the 2013 FutureEverything conference
- http://www.face-to-facebook.net - an artist's intervention by Alessandro Ludovico and Paolo Cirio
- http://bengrosser.com/projects/facebook-demetricator - a web browser add-on by Ben Grosser that allows you to hide these metrics in Facebook
- The Quantified Self - videos detailing people's experiences with self-tracking and data-analysis
Dave Eggers, The Circle
- All that happens will be known.
- opening chapter - some wanky sounding pep talk rally about webcam surveillance and internet of things (duh nothing spectacular, just in novel form...)
