Dear all
As you might know, the International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA) annual conference 'Public Image' will be hosted by CUCR-Goldsmiths, 8-10 July 2013.
Will you please help me to circulate the CfP for my panel:
Exploding the scopic regime of Bentham’s: does the metaphor of the panopticon still hold?
Keywords: video sur-veillance; sous-veillance; panopticon; everyday technology; gaze
Dystopian scenarios of urban environment ridden with mechanical eyes have filled the imagination of the last generation of scholars, activists, and artists. Urban society has been thought to resemble scenarios similar to Bentham’s prison or Orwell’s 1984 book. In the past decades, however, there has been an increasing call for re-thinking the extent to which western modern societies are effectively under the threat of overarching and ubiquitous technologies of surveillance.
On the other hand, the revolution in portable technologies and their ability in quickly communicating or sharing visual outcomes have open spaces of accountability for power never imagined before. Some have suggested that the panopticon is now happening from below and it is a highly democratic adventure.
In such claims, the whole way in which the visuality implicit in the panopticon works has been called into question (one way relationship watchers-watched, detached view from above, passivity of the watched, and so on). The panel suggests to contribute to such critical understanding, calling scholarly, hackivist, and artistic contributions to help unpacking the scopic regime of sous-surveillance.
How do watchers, or the interplay between watchers and watched, contribute to the making of urban space? How can social networking, ubiquitous visual technology, and activist intervention help to make security apparatus visible? To what extent can we talk of the social panopticon? Would this new dimension of sousvelliance enhance accountability for power?
Please submit your abstract (250 words max.) or visual presentation directly to [log in to unmask]
The deadline for abstract submissions is 31st of March 2013.
The International Visual Sociology Association national conference is a unique opportunity to talk about your work to a very competent international audience. More information about the conference and a full call for paper can be found here<http://visualsociology.org/conference/2013-ivsa-conference/2013-ivsa-conference-intro.html>. The hosting institution is the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR)<http://www.gold.ac.uk/cucr/> at Goldsmiths in London.
Dr. Paolo Cardullo
PhD Visual Sociology
Visiting Research Fellow
CUCR - Goldsmiths
University of London
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