At 23:17 +0100 15/9/09, BOYNE R.D. wrote:
>I am writing a little on literature and digital surveillance.
>William Gibson and Neil Stephenson are in my sights, but there must
>be quite a bit more. If anyone could help with further suggestions,
>I would be very grateful.
This is maybe a bit broader, and way out of date:
http://www.rogerclarke.com/DV/NotesAntiUtopia.html
For example, it omits later Stephenson, some relevant bits of Brin,
and the two more recent Atwoods ('Oryx and Crake', and the new one).
Part of the challenge is that surveillance as a central theme has
been done, well and truly. More recent lit has surveillance as
background or context rather than as centrepiece. (Humans become
inured to problems distressingly quickly, and make and wear their own
blinkers, so that they can pretend the problems don't exist).
I'm preparing for a panel shortly on the general theme of 'The
Transparent Society' (Brin's notion, rather than his book per se).
I've written strong critisism of David's central thesis in that book,
should that be in your sights as well.
So I'd be pleased to be copied in on any off-list traffic, because it
will help loosen my mind up for the panel. (I don't write fiction.
Well, not intentionally anyway).
The event is on 5 Oct, at the Australian speculative fiction
conference, which happens to be here in Canberra this year:
http://www.conflux.org.au/
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Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University
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