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

[Julian Oliver]

..on Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:21:44PM +0100, Simon Biggs wrote:
> 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.

Indeed. 

Social networks leverage a pre-existing social anxiety, the fear of social
irrelevance and subsequent obsolescence. A symptom of this is suspicion of those
that choose not to participate, as participation edges toward social compulsion
and then the compulsory.

Guilty until proven subscribed. 

Again, we need to remind ourselves that the most popular social networks are not
owned by their Public. Rather, they are owned by the most legally inverse form,
Private enterprises. One can reasonably consider subscribers of Facebook as
employees, without contract, whose renumeration is access to the data they
create. Subscribers encourage, patrol and regulate participation (pokes,
invites).

Cheers,

Julian

> 
> 
> > 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
> > 
> > I don't suppose you have time to elaborate on this (below)  for
> > me......if you do  thanks.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> "Foucault's panopticon is an expression of
> >> social creativity and collective (un-)consciousness too."
> >>   
> > 
> > 
> > stanza
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > www.stanza.co.uk
> > 
> > 
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