Category: Surveillance
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The Truman Show: “The Last Thing That I Would Ever Do is Lie to You”
Truman Burbank is under surveillance by television cameras 24 hours a day within the framework of a carefully choreographed Reality TV show watched by billions of voyeuristic viewers globally. Truman lives inside a vast Hollywood studio erected as an enclosed dome that is so large that it can be seen from outer space.
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How to Take Back Our Freedom in the Surveillance Society, by Alan N. Shapiro
We need to go beyond Foucault-, Orwell-, and Huxley-inspired models of how contemporary quasi-totalitarian systems of social control work. Individual freedom right now is in big trouble. American hyper-reality, hyper-work, hyper-consumerism, hyper-communication, and hyper-eating today strike me in so many aspects as being systems of mutual- and self-surveillance.