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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

• futureeverything.org/ongoing-projects/chattr/ - a design experiment that sharing online private conversations of visitors to the 2013 FutureEverything conference
• www.face-to-facebook.net - an artist's intervention by Alessandro Ludovico and Paolo Cirio
• 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 expereinces with sel-tracking and data-analysis

Dave Eggers, The Circle