CTRL [SPACE]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother

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This book investigates the state of panoptic art at a time when issues of security and civil liberties are on many people's minds. Traditional imaging and tracking systems have given way to infinitely more powerful "dataveillance" technologies, as an evolving arsenal of surrogate eyes and ears in our society shifts its focus from military to domestic space. Taking as its point of departure an architectural drawing by Jeremy Bentham that became the model for an entire social regime, CTRL [SPACE] looks at the shifting relationships between design and power, imaging and oppression, from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries.

From the photographs taken with hidden cameras by Walker Evans and Paul Strand in the early twentieth century to the appropriation of military satellite technology by Marko Peljhan a hundred years later, the works of a wide range of artists have explored the dynamics of watching and being watched. The artists whose panoptical preoccupations are featured include, among others, Sophie Calle, Diller + Scofidio, Dan Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Michael Klier, Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Thomas Ruff, Julia Scher, Andy Warhol, and Peter Weibel. This book, along with the exhibition it accompanies, is the first state-of-the-art survey of panopticism -- in digital culture, architecture, television, video, cinema, painting, photography, conceptual art, installation work, robotics, and satellite imaging.

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Watching and Being Watched.......2004-03-15

They're everywhere: tiny cameras, webcams, security cameras... video-capturing devices are almost as ubiquitous as the banner ads for them: "Watch anyone, anytime." We're all stuck somewhere between reality TV and a TV reality. Following the panopticon from an eighteenth century architectural drawing by Jeremy Bentham to the pervasive surveillance of the twenty-first century, CTRL [SPACE] is a comprehensive history of watching and being watched.

This massive tome includes writings by such luminaries as Steve Mann ("Reflectionism" and "Diffusionism": New Tactics for Deconstructing the Video Surveillance Superhighway), McKenzie Wark (To the Vector the Spoils), Lev Manovich (Modern Surveillance Machines: Perspective, Radar, 3-D Computer Graphics, and Computer Vision) and Timothy Druckrey (Secret Agents, Security Leaks Immune Systems, Spore Wars...), as well as philosophers like Michel Foucault (The Eye of Power: A Conversation with Jean-Pierre Barou and Michelle Perrot), Paul Virilio (The Visual Crash), Jean Baudrillard (Telemorphosis) and Gilles Deleuze (Postscript on Control Societies). CTRL [SPACE] also includes full-color photographs of the work of many artists preoccupied by the spread of the panopticon: Sophie Calle, Diller + Scofidio, Dan Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Michael Klier, Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Thomas Ruff, Julia Scher, Andy Warhol and Peter Weibel, among others.

CTRL [SPACE] represents the first state-of-the-art survey of panopticism--in digital culture, architecture, television, video, cinema, painting, photography, conceptual art, installation work, robotics and satellite imaging. It is truly a required text for those watching and those being watched.

Rhetorics of Surveillance: Good Book, Bad Layout........2003-03-27

its got it all. this book has a wide collection of wonderful text on the history, use, politics, future, and concepts of surveilence. its like a text book, but its not. the only complaint i have is the foot notes are in the middle of the pages in a ligher font and it makes it kind of hard to read the actual text on the page. and they have these red lines all over the place in the background of the text. good book, bad layout.

Beautiful and Useful.......2002-11-02

Have you ever wanted a book that not only informs and educates you about surveillance and social control, but also offers you visual examples and responses from a varied and unusual selection of academics, journalists, artists, film-makers and more? I may be unusual, but I know I have!

CTRL [SPACE] offers not only new artwork and new articles from important researchers and theorists like Lev Manovich and Peter Weibel, including a fascinating piece on the links between the eye of God and modern surveillance by Astrid Schmidt-Burkhardt, but also: reprints of classic pieces from the likes of Foucault, Virilio, Deleuze, extracts of work on the cold war and computing by Paul Edwards and top-class investigative journalism on the NSA's Echelon system by Duncan Campbell, descriptions of efforts to resist surveillance from groups like the Surveillance Camera Players and the Institute for Applied Autonomy, and reconsiderations of both artistic, architectural and philosophical contributions to surveillance theory from Bentham to Warhol and Yoko Ono.

Although, it features almost no contemporary work from the field of surveillance studies (David Lyon, Gary Marx, Clive Norris et al.) it is a combination of sourcebook and idiosyncratic lucky-dip of contemporary surveillance discourses. This book is MIT Press at its best: it is beautifully-produced and does full justice to the work of the artists and commentators featured in the exhibition upon which it is based. The only slightly irritating feature about its otherwise admirable design is the use of intertextual footnotes in light grey, which are sometimes hard to read.

Altogether - recommended and worth it even at this price.

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Ctrl Ce documents the journey of sixteen European architects to the Post-Professional program (AAD) at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia Univeristy in New York. The documentation takes the form of a mosaic that brings together what they have collectively produced, heard, discussed, and read about throughout this journey. This mosaic attempts to question what is implied by the phrase "European architects".

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This digital document is an article from Financial Management (UK), published by Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 2612 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Ctrl[Space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother.: An article from: Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine

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This digital document is an article from Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine, published by Parachute Contemporary Art on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 410 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: East Kent's glittering prizes: the opening of the CTRL in 2007 could transform not just the economy of the Ashford growth area, but the economies of the ring of seaside and port towns of East Kent. (Sustainable Communities).
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Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: Town and Country Planning Association
Volume: 72 Issue: 3 Page: 90(2)

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A great art pack to begin art techniques.......2007-02-06

This is a nice little pack of materials for an introduction to the techniques in the accompanying book (most of which are taken from Usborne's Art Skills book). These are media other than drawing: paint, crayon, and pastels. (Usborne has another kit for drawing)

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Everything I Really Need to Know I Learned from Television, 8 Copy Prepak
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Here are 200 irresistible love letters from over the centuries, love letters both historic and fictional, love letters by poets and by princes, love letters enchanting, tragic, comic, superbly selected, beautifully printed, conveniently portable, to have with you wherever and whenever you're in the mood for love.

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The Nuances of Love.......2007-10-12

Today we text message. We post messages on our Facebook or MySpace. We email, instant message, or call our beloved. And although it would be a mistake to judge these modes of communication as being better or worse than the love letter, one cannot help but think, and be awed, that for centuries the only means for two to send words of love was through the letter. Though there is poetry, though there are sonnets, plays, and novels without end expressing romantic love, for some reason the love letter holds a dear precious place in our hearts. Perhaps we remember our first love letter and through that remembrance of times past personalize the experience of reading the letters of another. Perhaps it is the concise passionate intensity of it. So much of one's heart in so short a space. Ink with the passion of one intoxicated by love.

Whatever it may be, we are drawn to it time and again. And in that fascination, Everyman's Library has taken passion of lovers and loved from the past centuries, for us to voyeuristically behold. Choosing to embrace all the nuances of love, rather than a single dimension, E.L. presents humorous love (G.K. Chesterton to Frances Plogg), intoxicating love (Keats to Fanny Browne), erotic love (Ann Hamilton and Barbara Villiers to Lord Chesterfield), deeply sad love (Nadia Mandelstam to Osip Mandelstam), and of course all consuming love(Bernard Shaw and Stella Campbell; F. Scott and Zelda). Through these letters, one sees love not as the construct of the imagination of an author, or poet, or playwright. Through these letters one sees love in all its living, breathing beauty and reality. This book does not idealize love. It does not have to. Love, as it exists in reality, is more beautiful, more perfect than any fancy any artist could conjure up. It is perfect not in spite of its flaws and pains and disappointments. It is perfect because of its flaws and pains and disappointments. In this book one reads of the joys and pains, the victories and defeats, the winters and springs of true love. In this book, filled with true love from true lovers, one sees that love is not perfected in books or art; it already exists perfect in life.

An old and uneven selection.......2001-11-06

There are a few quite good letters here, but many of them appear to have been selected either because the writer was famous or the editor was just desperate to fill the book. Nearly all of them are from before WW2 and most are from before the 20th century. As a result, most of the letters have language that would seem very stilted if used today. But even old age doesn't excuse the writing that in some cases made me cringe.

A terrific little Compilation!.......2000-06-03

Not only has this book been a fantastic source of beautiful quotes to share with my beloved, reading through it and using some of the letters it contains as a model has helped me express my feelings for her more eloquently.

Well organized and easy to use as a reference book, this handy little volume has love letters written by a large assortment of authors, poets, celebrities, and historical figures from a wide spectrum of time periods. This brilliant selection of letters runs the gamut of the various emotions present in any romantic relationship and is divided into sections which helps in finding letters most applicable to specific situations.

Most anybody will be able to find something that applies to them personally - a nice reminder that it's all been said before, and probably better than you'll ever be able to. I'm sure I'll continue to use this terrific source of inspiration and reflection for many years to come.

-the binding ribbon is really nice for marking special letters - an added bonus!

The Pocket Library of Letters For Real Estate Professionals
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The Pocket Library of Letters II makes letter writing easy! It gives advice of letter format & style in 260 sample letters. Sample letters to buyers & sellers, advanced prospecting, farming letters & much, much, more! No two letters in the Library of Letters & Library of Letters II are repeated.

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