Surveillance

Overthink

Ellie Anderson, Ph.D. and David Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D.

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Feeling watched? Suspicious your Google Home is a front for Big Brother? From period tracking apps to police body cams, surveillance has immense social-political implications for our everyday lives. In episode 55 of Overthink, Ellie and David draw on social philosophy to understand our experiences of mass surveillance. How do technologies of surveillance that promise convenience and freedom lead us to welcome new forms of control into our lives? They also consider how these technologies have empowered people to take up new methods of resisting state violence.

Works Discussed

Anders Albrechtslund, “Online social networking as participatory surveillance”
Roger Clark, “Information technology and dataveillance”
Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control”
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish
Kevin Haggerty and Richard Ericson, “The surveillant assemblage”
Steve Mann, “’Sousveillance’: inverse surveillance in multimedia imaging’”

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm David Pena Guzman.
0:08.6	And I'm Ellie Anderson.
0:10.2	Welcome to Overthink.
0:12.0	The podcast were two friends, who are also professors,
0:15.0	put philosophy in dialogue with the everyday.
0:18.6	Because big ideas are within everyone's reach.
0:30.0	Ellie, what sort of targeted ads are you getting these days?
0:34.5	I think I've been getting some for like bathing suits. Let me check Instagram and tell you.
0:41.6	I'm going to open my Instagram too. Oh my gosh. This is not cute. My first one on Instagram is
0:47.2	hardwood smoked deli meat. That is not my vibe. And my second one because you, you know, they just come one right after the other.
0:56.2	Oh, now this is more right.
0:57.7	It's giving me some ad for like a linen bedspread that looks really minimalist chic,
1:05.1	you know, and kind of like a mustard color.
1:07.0	How about you?
1:07.8	Okay.
1:08.1	The first one that comes up for me on Instagram is a Chase ad encouraging me to go to
1:14.5	Worth the Weight restaurants in order to earn three times the points.
1:19.6	Oh, it's advertising Chase Sapphire credit card for you.
1:22.1	Yes.
1:22.8	I have that.
1:23.7	I get three times the points.
1:25.0	And now this has just become a Chase advertisement for which we are not paid. Oh my God. The next one is an underwear bathing suit thing. It heard you say it and it probably
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