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The Ubiquitous View: Surveillance, Imagination, and the Power of Being Seen

dc.creatorAhrens, Jörn
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-16T09:50:48Z
dc.date.available2019-07-16T09:50:48Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThe _Essay discusses the relation between surveillance and imagination. It unfolds the argument that surveillance as a form of (political) oppression is necessarily cen-tering on a decisionistic act of the individual who has to opt for deviant or conformist behavior under conditions of obvious social and political surveillance. Today, how-ever, especially due to processes of an ongoing digitalization, surveillance is becom-ing a mode of self-expression, experiencing a shift towards its habituation and nor-malization within social reality. This development marks a clear difference from the classic habituation of surveillance as estranged, governmental practice. What seems to remain intact with regard to contemporary concepts of surveillance is the im-portance of the view and the meaning of surveillance as a politics of the image and the imaginary.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/4069
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/4832
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:hebis:26-opus-139017
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherInternational Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
dc.publisher.placeGießen
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2366-4142
dc.relation.ispartofseriesOn_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectPrivatsphärede
dc.subjectVideoüberwachungde
dc.subjectPostmodernede
dc.subjectImaginationde
dc.subjectÜberwachungde
dc.subjectsurveillanceen
dc.subjectvisual mediaen
dc.subjectCCTVen
dc.subjectprivacyen
dc.subjectdata hackingen
dc.subjectdataen
dc.subjectPostmodernityen
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.titleThe Ubiquitous View: Surveillance, Imagination, and the Power of Being Seenen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitationJörn Ahrens: The Ubiquitous View: Surveillance, Imagination, and the Power of Being Seen. In: On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture (2018) Nr. 6: Surveillance Cultures. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/4069.
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-05-29T01:00:10
local.identifier.firstpublishedurn:nbn:de:hebis:26-opus-139017
local.source.issueTitleSurveillance Cultures
local.source.volume6

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