[-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology, ...stanza to simon biggs ----off list email

[Simon Biggs]

Happy to.

Foucault's panopticon interprets Bentham's centralised "eye of control" as
distributed throughout society. Everybody is implicated in the "gaze of
control". Foucault connects Lacan's concept of the gaze and Freud's of the
super-ego (the social-self as controller of the Id) fixing surveillance as
distributed agency. It is like the human-aliens in the Invasion of the
Bodysnatchers, who are all wired to recognise the "others" (the normal
humans). This film has always been understood as a metaphor for McCarthyism
and the manner in which populations can enforce normalisation of minorities.
This can be seen as social and individual formation, like other similar
social dynamics, such as inclusion in a group (or exclusion), common
language, sub-cultural codes, etc.

Best

Simon


Simon Biggs
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Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments
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Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice
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> From: stanza <Stanza at sublime.net>
> Reply-To: <Stanza at sublime.net>
> Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:38:35 +0100
> To: Simon Biggs <s.biggs at eca.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology,...stanza to simon
> biggs ----off list email
> 
> Hi Simon
> 
> I  just read this post of yours on...on empyre
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> I don't suppose you have time to elaborate on this (below)  for
> me......if you do  thanks.
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>> "Foucault's panopticon is an expression of
>> social creativity and collective (un-)consciousness too."
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> 
> stanza
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> www.stanza.co.uk
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