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1 Ravi Vatrapu vatrapu@cbs.dk Digital Positivism and Civic Panopticon Course Portal: http://www.itu.dk/~rkva/2011-Spring-EB22http://www.itu.dk/~rkva/2011-Spring-EB22 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=133258548012http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=133258548012 Etherpad: http://ietherpad.com/7y3drhMCnqhttp://ietherpad.com/7y3drhMCnq Thursday, 10-Mar-2011 EB22: Online Marketing: Lecture 20 Auditorium 4, ITU, Copenhagen, Denmark
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T ECHNOLOGIES OF P RACTICAL R EASON Foucault’s Technologies of Practical Reason Foucault, M. (1988). Technologies of the Self. In L. H. Martin, P. H. Hutton & H. Gutman (Eds.), Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault (pp. 16-49): Univ of Massachusetts Press. Rearticulates Max Weber’s yet satisfactorily unanswered question: If one wants to behave rationally and regulate one’s action according to true principles, what part of one’s self should one renounce? (Foucault:1998, p17) Four Matrices of Practical Reason Technologies of Production Technologies of Sign Systems Technologies of Power Technologies of the Self 2
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D IGITAL P OSITIVISM Epistemic relationship with external reality mediated by existence, persistence, and exchange of digital records and arifacts "If a tree falls in a forest and there is no YouTube record of it, did it fail to fall?" 3
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C IVIC P ANOPTICON Civic surveillance of people and places of power made possible by social structural assimilation of near pervasive and ubiquitous computing Ubiquitous: integrated and invisible Pervasive: instituted and invasive Abu-Ghraib Prison Scandal Senator Allen’s “macacca” comment and event Hillary Clinton’s “Bosnia Sniper-Fire” incident 4
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