Spaces of Surveillance: States and Selves
Antonia Mackay (Ed.)
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Description for Spaces of Surveillance: States and Selves
Hardback. Editor(s): Mackay, Antonia; Flynn, Susan. Num Pages: 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSB; HP; JFD; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
In a world of ubiquitous surveillance, watching and being watched are the salient features of the lives depicted in many of our cultural productions. This collection examines surveillance as it is portrayed in art, literature, film and popular culture, and makes the connection between our sense of `self' and what is `seen'. In our post-panoptical world which purports to proffer freedom of movement, technology notes our movements and habits at every turn. Surveillance seeps out from businesses and power structures to blur the lines of security and confidentiality. This unsettling loss of privacy plays out in contemporary narratives, where the ... Read more
In a world of ubiquitous surveillance, watching and being watched are the salient features of the lives depicted in many of our cultural productions. This collection examines surveillance as it is portrayed in art, literature, film and popular culture, and makes the connection between our sense of `self' and what is `seen'. In our post-panoptical world which purports to proffer freedom of movement, technology notes our movements and habits at every turn. Surveillance seeps out from businesses and power structures to blur the lines of security and confidentiality. This unsettling loss of privacy plays out in contemporary narratives, where the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319490847
SKU
V9783319490847
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Ref
99-15
About Antonia Mackay (Ed.)
Susan Flynn lectures at University of the Arts, London, UK, in Media Communications and Cultural Studies. A graduate of the Equality Studies Centre at University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland, her work to date has focussed on media representations of ability, medical surveillance and non-normative identities. Antonia Mackay lectures at Oxford Brookes University and Goldsmiths University of London, UK. Specialising ... Read more
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