http://emptypanopticon.org Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:25:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Gone, but not forgotten. http://emptypanopticon.org/2007/06/16/from-a-library-in-nh/ Wal-Mart can catch you (wants to catch you!) missing your secret lover & the NYTimes will run the "embarrasing email." & I'll spread the love. “I miss you ridiculously,” began one of the e-mail messages from Ms. Roehm to Mr. Womack. “I hate not being able to call you or ... http://emptypanopticon.org/2007/03/31/evidence-or-a-hallmark-card/ This entry features the grand-daddy of American privacy, Samuel Warren and Louis D. Brandeis' "The Right to Privacy." Today, this defense of privacy is in the public domain. You can read it here. You can read of it here, here, or, well, everywhere. Given that this is a well-researched and ... http://emptypanopticon.org/2007/03/19/why-privacy-matters-3/ Today's entry on privacy features Bruce Schneier's article "The Eternal Value of Privacy," which ran in Wired News in May of 2006. I said in my last entry that I am going to withhold critical commentary on these different figurations of privacy.  I am forcing myself to stick to that promise.  ... http://emptypanopticon.org/2007/03/17/why-privacy-matters-2/ "In a state of constant distraction, the consciousness of the collective acts like a shock bsorber, registering sense impressions without really experiencing them: Shocks are''intercepted, parried by conscoiusness, ' in order to prevent a traumatic effect. [Montage] provides the audience with a new capacity to study this modern existence reflectively, from 'the position of a ... http://emptypanopticon.org/2007/03/17/war-music/ We can measure the time by $ or tragedy or tragedy : this is another kind of counter We have been at war against the people of Iraq since I was in ... http://emptypanopticon.org/2007/03/16/3202003-3202007/ Recently, a friend asked me to explain why privacy matters. That's the question, right, on which a critique of surveillance must be built? In response to that question, I intend to use the next few entries here to offer a (non-critical, at least initially) summation of what others out ... http://emptypanopticon.org/2007/03/15/why-privacy-matters-1/ Note : What follows should NOT be considered a definitive or accurate depiction of ANT.  I finished reading Latour’s Reassembling the Social today and am still ruminating on it. What can ANTs tell us about online surveillance? Literally, nothing.  In a stylized dialog with a graduate student, Bruno Latour tells the ... http://emptypanopticon.org/2007/03/14/what-can-ants-tell-us-about-online-surveillance/ This week, Boston gave up on the charade it calls Winter ’06-’07.  But I do not feel betrayed,   even if our collective conscious demands boots and wool accessories : I swear I saw the winter fashion out yesterday, though the thermometer read balmy! : even if our inner curmudgeons, all ... http://emptypanopticon.org/2007/03/13/writing-on-the-wall/ Today, as the T took me from the edge of the city to the edge of the suburbs, I quit reading about The Simulation of Surveillance and visually loafed with the cityscape. Even as I passed through, no matter the train’s speed, Allston/Brighton kept still. The snow ... http://emptypanopticon.org/2007/02/26/what-else-can-the-slush-try-to-tell-us/