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Jenny Hollander, “YouTube Video of Matthew Cordle Latest to Post Murder ‘Confession’ on Internet”

Posted on April 15, 2014 by araehug

Last year, Because I said I would, a website that helps people post a commitment they are making, posted the above video on YouTube, featuring Matthew Cordle confessing to drunk driving the wrong way on a highway and killing a … Continue reading →

Posted in Annotations, Watching Each Other | Tagged annotation, because i said i would, behavior, bustle, confession, crime, criminal, criminal justice, digital confessional, digital humanities, digital media, facebook, foucault, hegemony, internet confession, jail, jenny hollander, justice, matthew cordle, panopticon, police, postsecret, reddit, self-policing, social media, social norms, society, tumblr, twitter, victim, youtube | 1 Comment

Indhu Rajagopal, “Does the Internet shape a disciplinary society? The information-knowledge paradox”

Posted on April 14, 2014 by araehug

Rajagopal’s essay considers the relationship between information and knowledge through a Foucauldian framework. This was a complex, dry argument, so I’m going to try to communicate what I understood, and what I might continue to think about. In the knowledge/power … Continue reading →

Posted in Annotations, Watching Each Other | Tagged althusser, archaeology, confessional, digital, digital confessional, digital humanities, digital media, discipline, foucault, genealogy, hegemony, indhu rajagopal, information, institution, internet, ISA, knowledge, knowledge-information paradox, knowledge/power, panopticon, prison, social media | 1 Comment

Simon Copland, “The Culture of Confession”

Posted on April 13, 2014 by araehug

This short blog post on the Moonbat (Big ideas, big politics.) makes the same, limited move that much of what I’ve read before does: Copland begins with a nice little summary of Foucault’s confessional, and then turns to apply it … Continue reading →

Posted in Annotations, Watching Each Other | Tagged capitalism, confessional, control, corporations, digital confessional, digital humanities, digital media, facebook, foucault, government, instagram, internet, linkedin, narrative, nsa, panopticon, simon copland, social media, spying, state, stories, the culture of confession, the moonbat, twitter | 1 Comment

Mitchell McInnis, “Conversation with a Dead Man: Foucault on Facebook and Confession”

Posted on April 9, 2014 by araehug

Turning from panopticism (which I’m still unsure is a word) toward Foucault’s confessional, I look at Mitchell McInnis’ blog post from Hoboeye.com, which seems to be a possibly-temporarily-defunct online publication about wandering. I annotate this because the beginning raises an interesting … Continue reading →

Posted in Annotations, Watching Each Other | Tagged christianity, confession, confessional, conversation, digital confessional, digital humanities, digital media, facebook, foucault, hobo eye, hoboeye.com, internet confessional, michel foucault, mitchell mcinnis, panopticon, sharing, social media, story telling, talk shows, twitter | 1 Comment

Tom Brignall III, “The New Panopticon – The Internet Viewed as a Structure of Social Control”

Posted on April 8, 2014 by araehug

I would have never guessed that this article was post-9/11, but according to this vaguely-identified HTML version of it, it was published in 2002. I don’t know why no one has considered the panopticon and the internet more recently, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Annotations, Watching Each Other | Tagged arab spring, barack obama, bentham, big brother, brignall, capitalism, confessional, corporations, counter culture, digital humanities, digital media, digital panopticon, foucault, hegemony, internet, liberation, liberatory, panopticon, policing, privacy, self-oppression, self-policing, social control, surveillance, tom brignall iii | 1 Comment

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