A Foucauldian Genealogy of Cybernetic Subjectivity
An overview of cybernetics, its production of subjects and key players and ideas that formed the cybernetic paradigm.
Panoptibook
Panoptibook is a new media research project. is not a real social platform: it is a website that just looks like a social network. The intention is to approach what a ‘social’ network would look like if a...
Escape the Overcode – Wild Cards project
Brian Holmes wrote the book “Escape the overcode. Activist art in control society” as a part of a wider long-term collaborative research project “Continental Drift”. The research focused on the geopolitics and geopoetics. In the book, Brian Holmes discusses...
Captives of the Social: Facebook and Digital Pantopticism
As a network, the Web is usually connoted as an open-ended, anarchic and non-hierarchic environment. Compared to previous modes of organization, its distributed nature is considered an improvement over centralized and decentralized one-to-many communications and productions. (( Alexander R....
Facebook: open minded panopticon?
Something caught my eye this week that seemed so contradictory that I want to share it with you. In the course New Media Theories, and actually in every other new media course, the principles of Michel Foucault are relevant....
Futureader
Whether they are hard or soft cover, thick or thin, large or small, heavy or light, old or new, owned or borrowed – the traditional book exists in all shapes, forms and genres. The e-book lacks this spectrum of...
Twitter: The Inverse Panopticon?
There’s a lot to be said about Twitter and alike, even though few have done so from a humanities perspective. Today, I would like to pose some thoughts that might inspire more new media researchers to move forward in...
Watching You Watch Me!! (…on Facebook)
The Web 2.0 application FACEBOOK analysed through FOUCAULTS PHILOSOPHIES ON SOCIETY.
WARNING|DANGER: With this knowledge a consciousness is created with which people become aware about the possibilities of people watching/observing/monitoring people, both virtually as in the real world.
Alex Galloway on Protocol @ UvA
After the talk Alex Galloway gave on The Game of War Rosie asked him to give us an introduction to Protocol, which is key literature for one of our courses. This is the first spontaneously organized event by Geeks...