Deleuze insists “ask…not what a text means but how it works” (p. xxxii). “In order to begin to read and respond to an event we need to see its underlying problem” (p. xxxiv). The eye is the response to a problem of how to deal with light. A date in history is the confluence of [...]
Notes from: Elmer, G. (2003). A diagram of panoptic surveillance. New media and society, 5(2), 231-247. Retrieved June 7, 2008, from SAGE Publications database. Not proof-read, read generously. The development of a theory of panoptic surveillance is often hampered by an overly literal interpretation of the panopticon. Criticisms of panopticism are made in three broad [...]
In applying Foucault’s concept of Panopticism to the surveillance of personal blogs I will use Deleuze’s critique found in Postscripts. I should also use Foucault’s own critique based on his development of the concept of pastoral power as set out in Subjectivity and Power. Pastoral power is much more modular and smooth then the exercise [...]
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