Surveillance | Society | Culture

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Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
I. Agencies
	Surveillance – A Complex Relationship
		1 The Critias Fragment: Constructing and Deconstructing Control
		2 Hamlet and Early Modernity: The Tragic Antagonism between Surveillance and Resistance
		3 The Modern Picture in Godard’s Alphaville: Satirical Demystification of Surveillance
		4 The Three Representations of Surveillance Compared with Real, Intelligence-Based Surveillance
		Bibliography
	Gazing Back at the Monster – A Critical Posthumanist Intervention on Surveillance Culture, Sousveillance and the Lifelogged Self
		1 Towards an Equilibrium: The Cultural Logic of Sousveillance
		2 The Lifelogged Self as Empowered Self?
		3 Curbing the Enthusiasm: A Critical Posthumanist Intervention
		Bibliography
	Too Much Information: Self-Monitoring and Confessional Culture
		1 Self-Revelation and the Obligation to Speak: Foucault’s Confessing Animal
		2 The Puritan Origins of Public Confession
		3 Privacy and the Proliferation of Confessional Culture
		4 “Tyranny of Intimacy”? Confessional Culture and the Public Realm
		5 The Truth Will Set You Free: Televised Confessions
		6 “I Am Seen, Therefore I Am” – Confessions as Do-It-Yourself Surveillance?
		7 “The Right Be Let Alone” in the Age of Hyper-Publicity
		Bibliography
II. Stories and songs
	Death by Data: Identification and Dataveillance in Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story
		1 Introduction and Theoretical Background
		2 (No) Laughing Matter - Satire, Society, and Dataveillance
		3 Post-Humanity versus the Power of Narrative
		4 Why America is Gone: The End of American Exceptionalism
		5 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Flickers of Vision: Surveillance and the Uncertainty Paradigm in Dave Eggers’s The Circle
		1 Of Mirrors and Mimesis
		2 SurveillanSecurity
		3 Glass Tanks and Circles of (Mis)Trust
		4 Waves and Particles
		5 An Uncertain Conclusion
		Bibliography
	The Black Box of Humanism: Surveillance, the Spy Narrative, and Literary Form
		Bibliography
	Rap vs. Big Brother: The Conscious and the Comical
		Bibliography
III. Visualities
	The Art of Surveillance: Surveying the Lives and Works of Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei
		1 Topologies of Surveillance
		2 The Birth of Surveillance Art
			2.1 Stalking Truman Capote
		3 The Truman Show Delusion
		4 The Rise of Participatory Surveillance
		5 Bugging Ai Weiwei
		6 Ai Weiwei Bugs Back
		7 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Paranoia and Surveillance in Andrew Dominik’s Film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
		Bibliography
	Mythologies of Violence in American Police Videos
		1 Introduction
		2 The Issue of Identification
		3 Men with Guns
		4 Confronting the “Other”
		5 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Afterword
		1 From Videosphere to Infosphere
		2 Technology on the Look-Out
		3 Surveillance in Embryo
		4 “See-Changes”
		5 “Rogue Pixels”
		Bibliography
Afterword
About the Authors
Index