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Brave New Screens: Soma, FOMO, and Friendly Fascism after 1984

Surveillance

Brave New Screens: Soma, FOMO, and Friendly Fascism after 1984

Surveillance

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Super Bowl commercials teach us how to conceive of surveillance. While Apple promises to fight Big Brother with a personal computer, Coca-Cola invites us to think different, i.e. positively about security cameras. The whitewashing of surveillance accompanies the ‘big brotherization’ of Apple. However, the whitewashing may only be a distraction from another more subtle, more effective (and after all more amusing) progression towards a dystopian future: the constant sharing without friction and language and thus without the distance that would allow for reflection and critical thinking. In this essay, I discuss the symbolic value of the year 1984 and its link to the ongoing move from lingual to visual communication. It underlines that the television screen or smartphone is the sibling of the surveillance camera and shows why the dystopian future we fear won’t be like George Orwell’s 1984 or Anthony Burgess’ 1985.

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OrganisatieHogeschool van Amsterdam
Datum2018-12-18
TypeAndersoortig materiaal
TaalEngels

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