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Title: CTRL [SPACE]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother by Thomas Y. Levin, Ursula Frohne, Peter Weibel ISBN: 0-262-62165-7 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Watching and Being Watched
Comment: They're everywhere: tiny cameras, webcams, security cameras... video-capturing devices are almost as ubiquitous as the banner ads for them: "Watch anyone, anytime." We're all stuck somewhere between reality TV and a TV reality. Following the panopticon from an eighteenth century architectural drawing by Jeremy Bentham to the pervasive surveillance of the twenty-first century, CTRL [SPACE] is a comprehensive history of watching and being watched.
This massive tome includes writings by such luminaries as Steve Mann ("Reflectionism" and "Diffusionism": New Tactics for Deconstructing the Video Surveillance Superhighway), McKenzie Wark (To the Vector the Spoils), Lev Manovich (Modern Surveillance Machines: Perspective, Radar, 3-D Computer Graphics, and Computer Vision) and Timothy Druckrey (Secret Agents, Security Leaks Immune Systems, Spore Wars...), as well as philosophers like Michel Foucault (The Eye of Power: A Conversation with Jean-Pierre Barou and Michelle Perrot), Paul Virilio (The Visual Crash), Jean Baudrillard (Telemorphosis) and Gilles Deleuze (Postscript on Control Societies). CTRL [SPACE] also includes full-color photographs of the work of many artists preoccupied by the spread of the panopticon: Sophie Calle, Diller + Scofidio, Dan Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Michael Klier, Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Thomas Ruff, Julia Scher, Andy Warhol and Peter Weibel, among others.
CTRL [SPACE] represents the first state-of-the-art survey of panopticism--in digital culture, architecture, television, video, cinema, painting, photography, conceptual art, installation work, robotics and satellite imaging. It is truly a required text for those watching and those being watched.
Rating: 4
Summary: Rhetorics of Surveillance: Good Book, Bad Layout.
Comment: its got it all. this book has a wide collection of wonderful text on the history, use, politics, future, and concepts of surveilence. its like a text book, but its not. the only complaint i have is the foot notes are in the middle of the pages in a ligher font and it makes it kind of hard to read the actual text on the page. and they have these red lines all over the place in the background of the text. good book, bad layout.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful and Useful
Comment: Have you ever wanted a book that not only informs and educates you about surveillance and social control, but also offers you visual examples and responses from a varied and unusual selection of academics, journalists, artists, film-makers and more? I may be unusual, but I know I have!
CTRL [SPACE] offers not only new artwork and new articles from important researchers and theorists like Lev Manovich and Peter Weibel, including a fascinating piece on the links between the eye of God and modern surveillance by Astrid Schmidt-Burkhardt, but also: reprints of classic pieces from the likes of Foucault, Virilio, Deleuze, extracts of work on the cold war and computing by Paul Edwards and top-class investigative journalism on the NSA's Echelon system by Duncan Campbell, descriptions of efforts to resist surveillance from groups like the Surveillance Camera Players and the Institute for Applied Autonomy, and reconsiderations of both artistic, architectural and philosophical contributions to surveillance theory from Bentham to Warhol and Yoko Ono.
Although, it features almost no contemporary work from the field of surveillance studies (David Lyon, Gary Marx, Clive Norris et al.) it is a combination of sourcebook and idiosyncratic lucky-dip of contemporary surveillance discourses. This book is MIT Press at its best: it is beautifully-produced and does full justice to the work of the artists and commentators featured in the exhibition upon which it is based. The only slightly irritating feature about its otherwise admirable design is the use of intertextual footnotes in light grey, which are sometimes hard to read.
Altogether - recommended and worth it even at this price.
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Title: ICONOCLASH: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion and Art by Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel ISBN: 026262172X Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 07 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society by David Lyon ISBN: 0816625158 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion (Leonardo Books) by Oliver Grau ISBN: 0262072416 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 17 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Future Cinema : The Cinematic Imaginary After Film by Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel ISBN: 0262692864 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Language of New Media (Leonardo Books) by Lev Manovich ISBN: 0262632551 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 07 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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