{"id":8,"date":"2015-01-06T00:47:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T05:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2015-01-23T06:25:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T11:25:44","slug":"about-the-course","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/about-the-course\/","title":{"rendered":"about the course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2962194797_70082c1b93_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2962194797_70082c1b93_o-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"2962194797_70082c1b93_o\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2962194797_70082c1b93_o-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2962194797_70082c1b93_o-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On some level, surveillance and narrative seem to have an awful lot in common:\u00a0 both are technologies reaching across time and space to allow some parties to see into the inner lives of others, to witness and record private moments, to look from the outside in and make the private public.\u00a0 In this course, we will take these similarities seriously, asking how fiction, film, television, and games can and do operate in an era of widespread surveillance.\u00a0 How do textual and visual media confront\u2014or replicate\u2014the dynamics of power and spectatorship we associate with surveillance?\u00a0 What kinds of fictions have been written and produced about surveillance, as surveillance has become more and more central to the interactions between governments, companies, and individuals?\u00a0 How can we attend to surveillance itself as not only a technological or political phenomenon but a psychological and cultural phenomenon?\u00a0 How can we write and narrate under, around, about, within, or against surveillance? \u00a0In short: \u00a0what is it like to read, write, film, and live in the shadow of a surveillance society?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; On some level, surveillance and narrative seem to have an awful lot in common:\u00a0 both are technologies reaching across time and space to allow some parties to see into the inner lives of others, to witness and record private moments, to look from the outside in and make the private public.\u00a0 In this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}