Hello, everyone.

I'm Stephen West.

This is Philosophized This.

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So, the last couple episodes, we've been talking about the topic of how power operates in

the world.

Specifically, ways that people's behavior is directed where it's not as obvious or as

simple as they're just being a gun pointed to your head telling you what to do.

We talked about a digital panopticon.

We talked about big data and surveillance.

And I want to start with a quote from the philosopher we're going to be talking about today.

And for anybody out there who may be newer to philosophy, but you've listened to the last

couple episodes of the podcast, I love moments like this by the way where you read a quote

or you hear a passage from someone's work.

And you know that a few weeks ago you may not have known what they were even talking

about, but after having done the work, gotten to another level in your thinking, it feels

good seeing the difference knowing what the main character of this episode is talking

about when he mentions something like a digital panopticon.

Today, the entire globe is developing into a panopticon Google and social networks, which

present themselves as spaces of freedom are assuming panoptic forms today surveillance

is not occurring as an attack on freedom as is normally assumed.

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