Panopticon

A video about surveillance in modern society, comparing it to the Panopticon. I personally created this video for a technology course at my university. Thanks for watching!

Music by Brian Eno.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• panopticon
• surveillance
• wiretapping
• monitoring
• nsa

[ReeperDante]

I don't know if this was for a college class/ boredom or just the want to bring this knowledge to people but I think this is an awesome representation.

[thespavid]

@ReeperDante I created this for a "technology in the classroom" course because I am studying to be an English teacher. I am thrilled to see that this has entered classrooms and lecture halls of various disciplines. Thank you for your comments.

[bardic88]

What's so funny about the comments is that people believe this is a new idea. One guy saying, "yeah yeah yeah, the illuminati is taking over blah blah blah" must not be familiar with the literature that this has come from. It's not a conspiracy theory like the Zeitgeist propaganda; these are actual theories from a respected author/ philosopher. I agree that it has that conspiracy appeal to it, but nontheless it is accredited literature by Michel Foucault.

[crashedsky]

News today: Politicians and police want to, and are using, air drones to spy on American citizens.

[aghoranathi]

@robbin505 Nice reply, im subbing u, thnx

[wisdomtrek]

From a instinctive response I'm morally obligated to TEAR DOWN any Panopticon, in whatever guise it may manifest itself. VISCERALLY.

As best my abilities allow.

[robbin505]

@aghoranathi What most people call "conspiracy theory" is just run of the mill information in the field of communications. Anyone who doubts that there are people actively planning ways to create imbalance in the world only needs to look to the works of Adam Curtis, Noam Chomsky, a film called "The End of Poverty", a film called "The Corporation", Napoleoni's book "Rogue Economics", Bloomberg BusinessWeek, etc... The information is all there it is just too hard for most people to digest.

[robbin505]

@aghoranathi i would, if forced to categorize myself, call myself a post-modernist. I am also not a huge fan of the Zeitgeist movement as they are cybernetics followers but they have good information. I find it important to search through all provable data and use it, no matter what the source, as adherence to any one theory/doctrine really limits a person in terms of what is available as a source of thought or information.

[aghoranathi]

@robbin505 nice, Foucault's ideas, well some of them have been discredited but i fail to see how a philosopher could ever be accredited as though there is a right answer. I am a fan and it seems strange to me that bardic88 is also. He sounds like a co-incidence theorist. :)

[milova4class]

oh man, "... makes a simulacra of our decision making abilities"... oh man, that is really good. really nice extrapolation of the idea.

[finnbarrhagan]

they too are under the ponopticon...

[macandease]

Land of the Cowards, and home of the Oppressed.

[robbin505]

@bardic88 Now I get it, your one of those that fell into the pit of the logical fallacy. You need ideas to be accredited and stamped with the college intellectual stamp of authority. Well done, cheers.