I started writing today. A tentative beginning dipping my toe into powerful waters thus: I turn my attention now to how Foucault’s theories of the emergence of power, found in The subject and power, help explain the processes which led to Armstrong being fired. I’m planning to show how commercial and legal discourses provide explanations [...]
While I’m on the subject I’ll start with tidying up the introduction I’ve already written. At least if I know what I’m going to argue it’ll make my job a little easier. I’ll then tidy up the piece I wrote about surveillance and then move onto power and subjectivity.
I was going to take some time off between first and second semester. Now instead I’m going to start writing on Tuesday. My plan is to write a paragraph a day (about 250 words) for 5 days a week. In 12 weeks I’ll have my thesis written. It’s a simple plan but one I’m confident [...]
In Technologies of the Self Foucault states: “[In ancient Greece] it was generally acknowledged that it was good to be reflective, at least briefly…Writing was also important in the culture of taking care of oneself. One of the main features of taking care involved taking notes on oneself to be reread, …and keeping notebooks in [...]
Link to a review and preview of Theorizing surveillance: the panopticon and beyond.
Here’s a link to a significant body of comments about Heather Armstrong’s dismissal.
Panopticon.com: online surveillance and the commodification of privacy | Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media | Find Articles at BNET.com Detailed article about panopticism.






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