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Episode Synopsis
Feeling watched? Suspicious your Google Home is a front for Big Brother? From period tracking apps to police body cams, surveillance has immense social-political implications for our everyday lives. In episode 55 of Overthink, Ellie and David draw on social philosophy to understand our experiences of mass surveillance. How do technologies of surveillance that promise convenience and freedom lead us to welcome new forms of control into our lives? They also consider how these technologies have empowered people to take up new methods of resisting state violence. Works DiscussedAnders Albrechtslund, “Online social networking as participatory surveillance”Roger Clark, “Information technology and dataveillance”Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control”Michel Foucault, Discipline and PunishKevin Haggerty and Richard Ericson, “The surveillant assemblage” Steve Mann, “’Sousveillance’: inverse surveillance in multimedia imaging’”Support the showSubstack | overthinkpod.substack.com Website | overthinkpodcast.comInstagram & Twitter | @overthink_podEmail | [email protected] | Overthink podcast
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