Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics Chun Wendy Hui Kyong
Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics Chun Wendy Hui Kyong A work that bridges media archaeology and visual culture studies argues that the Internet has emerged as a mass…
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Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics Chun Wendy Hui Kyong
A work that bridges media archaeology and visual culture studies argues that the Internet has emerged as a mass medium by linking control with freedom and democracy.How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control?
The parallel (and paranoid) myths of the Internet as total freedom/total control, she says, stem from our reduction of political problems into technological ones.Drawing on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault and analyzing such phenomena as Webcams and face-recognition technology, Chun argues that the relationship between control and freedom in
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