[-empyre-] contesting the netopticon

[davin heckman]

Yes, thank you for having me as a part of this discussion.  It is
always a good group.  If anyone wants to pick anything up off list, I
am always happy to talk.

Davin

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:29 AM, marc garrett
<marc.garrett at furtherfield.org> wrote:
> Simon & all,
>
> Thank you for inviting me to be part of this discussion. I enjoyed it
> immensely...
>
> Unfortunately, I was unable to jump back into the discussion last week due
> to being too busy.
>
> I will reread all contributions & rethink my own assumptions :-)
>
> wishing you all well.
>
> marc
>
> www.furtherfield.org
>
>> So, we come to the end of the month of January and our discussion on the
>> theme of the Netopticon.
>>
>> To remind us where we began, abstracted from the original post setting out
>> the theme:
>> The Panoptic structures innate in social space are often cited in relation
>> to the internet and its governance. The term "Netopticon" suggests a
>> mesh-work structure of how a socially networked Panoptic apparatus can
>> operate. Malkit Shoshan describes how the social technologies that
>> characterise Web 2.0 facilitate the emergence of the internet as a
>> Panoptic
>> space, where individuals are complicit in their own surveillance. The
>> internet is pervasive in how people construct their social lives. If we
>> accept that "people" are emergent, through social activities that are a
>> process of becoming, issues around net neutrality, Web 2.0 and
>> surveillance
>> have implications reaching into the psycho-social. Within a Foucauldian
>> appreciation of the social, where the Panopticon (nee: super-ego) is
>> manifest at the heart of our social relations, the Netopticon engages our
>> entwined individual and social ontologies. How will the codification of
>> individual and collective relations develop?
>>
>> Over the past month invited guests and members of empyre have addressed
>> this
>> theme from a range of perspectives. I am not going to summarise the
>> various
>> viewpoints here as I fear my attempt would be inadequate. The empyre
>> archive
>> is accessible and makes an excellent read, organised by date, thread and
>> author.
>> https://lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/
>>
>> I would like to thank everybody who contributed to the discussion; our
>> guest
>> discussants Joseph Delappe, Marc Garrett, Davin Heckman, Patrick Lichty,
>> Heidi May, Christina Spiesel, Jon Thompson and Alison Craighead, all of
>> whom
>> gave generously of their time to post provocative and inspiring texts. I
>> would like to thank Renate Ferro and Tim Murray for inviting me to
>> moderate
>> the discussion and for continuing to host and maintain empyre. We can
>> present the netoptic as automatic social formation but sites for debate
>> like
>> empyre are precious and survive because of the efforts of individuals. I
>> would also like to thank all those members of empyre who contributed to
>> the
>> discussion and also all those members who participated silently. Whilst
>> lurking should be seen as a "public good" it is perhaps this silent
>> "reading", the nitrogen (as distinct to the oxygen) of listservs, which
>> presents the most appropriate image for the netopticon. By having our
>> conversations in public we can render our inter-subjectivities as a
>> performative instance of the netopticon in play.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>> Simon Biggs
>> simon at littlepig.org.uk
>> http://www.littlepig.org.uk/
>>
>> s.biggs at eca.ac.uk
>> http://www.elmcip.net/
>> http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/
>>
>>
>>
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