Many insights here, Tandria. The concluding formulation has me wondering. The notion that motion makes data seems right and useful, but then again, isn’t stillness also meaningful in this context? If I stand across the street from a bank for too long; I’ ...
I like the suggestions that “premediation” and “analysis” functions might assume different degrees of awareness of camera placement—the former suggesting an awareness that surveillance is omnipresent and ready for anything that might happen and the later ...
This is the missing other half of Robert Garcia's post! The two of you are describing equally surveillant types of work—nurturing guests, checking meters—with different approaches to managing space and time. What would happen if you introduced some o ...
I totally dig this post for its demonstration that attention to norms also makes the exceptions stand out—and seem to require an explanation. I also like the demonstration that it is possible to appropriate the surveillant powers of the state. People are ...
I'm interested in this contention: "We believe that the private nature of the group setting creates an illusion of privacy, which is reinforced by the smoothness of camera placement." The assumption here seems to be that their exists an aut ...
I super interested in an experimental program that might involving the creation of thoroughfare testing paranodes on Main Street. Do you have thoughts about the details of such a program? How might ti proceed? The upcoming celebration/memorialization of ...
I'm struck by your group's confidence that it would be "wrong" to do "something wrong." What makes you so sure that obedience is good for us? Are their any curcumstances in which it might not be? ...
A very impressive bit of work. I'm interested in the idea of "winning" at surveillance by having "the longest, and most accurate representation of the past, and all the information that comes with it." On the one hand, it would se ...
Interesting post, Robert. You compare two kinds of time-space discipline that could be thought of as very different. The Taylorist one, more typically associated with work than consumption, says "hurry up, pay attention, be efficient." Then ther ...
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