I am also writing a piece on surveillance (general)/technologically
controlled environments for a literary magazine and would be very grateful
to be kept in the loop on this topic.
JG Ballard's Super Cannes has a bit on digital surveillance and Henry Porter
has just written a novel on this theme. I'll dig out some other titles over
the weekend.
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Roger Clarke <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> 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 This is maybe a bit broader, and way out of date: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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