The simulation of surveillance : hypercontrol in telematic societies / William Bogard.
"This compelling book is an exploration of the imaginary of perceptual control technologies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. William Bogard constructs a 'social science fiction' of how the revolution in simulation technology reconfigures and intensifies the role of survei...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1996.
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| Series: | Cambridge cultural social studies.
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| Summary: | "This compelling book is an exploration of the imaginary of perceptual control technologies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. William Bogard constructs a 'social science fiction' of how the revolution in simulation technology reconfigures and intensifies the role of surveillance in war, work, sexuality, and private life, enabling forms of control which hyper realize our experience of time, space, agency, and society itself. His is a critique of the imaginary in which control breaks free of its prior limits, an imaginary of unmediated perception with effects everywhere in fantastic systems for the relentless conversion of objects, events, and people into information."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 207 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-202) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521550815 9780521550819 0521555612 9780521555616 |