Surveillance/society/culture / / Florian Zappe, Andrew S. Gross (eds.).

• TeilnehmendeR: Zappe, Florian, 1977-; Gross, Andrew
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : Peter Lang,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to English and American literary studies (CEALS) ; Volume 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 pages).

What only a few decades ago would have been considered a totalitarian nightmare seems to have become reality: Surveillance practices and technologies have infiltrated all aspects of our lives, forcing us to reconsider established notions of privacy, subjectivity, and the status of the individual in society. The United States is central to contemporary concerns about surveillance. American companies are at the forefront of developing surveillance technologies; and government agencies, in the name of security and law and order, are monitoring our words and actions more than ever before. This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the implications of what many consider to be a far-reaching social, political, and cultural transformation.

Table of Contents

Surveillance -- a complex relationship / Bernhard H.F. Taureck -- Gazing back at the monster -- a critical posthumanist intervention on surveillance culture, sousveillance and the lifelogged self / Florian Zappe -- Too much information : self-monitoring and confessional culture / Bärbel Harju -- Death by data : identification and dataveillance in Gary Shteyngart's Super sad true love story / Felix Haase -- Flickers of vision : surveillance and the uncertainty paradigm in Dave Eggers's The circle / Birgit Däwes -- The Black box of humanism : surveillance, the spy narrative, and literary form / Andrew S. Gross -- Rap vs. Big Brother : the conscious and the comical / Silke Järvenpää -- The art of surveillance : surveying the lives and works of Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei / Hugh Davies -- Paranoia and surveillance in Andrew Dominik's film The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford / Marek Paryż -- Mythologies of violence in American police videos / Caren Myers Morrison -- Afterword / Garrett Stewart.