gizmodo.com,
Wed 09/07:
Surveillance Is Getting Less, Not More, 'Orwellian'
“If we begin to feel that we’re being surveilled all the time, our behavior changes. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language.” It is also a term that, today, significantly hinders our ability to comprehend the realities of the surveillance under which live. G/O Media may get a commission $7 off Govee 16.4' LED Strip Light with Bluetooth Remote Mood lighting: anywhere. The app comes pre-loaded with 64 “scenes” to light up your room. Advertisement
A man receiving a $35 fine after being photographed with his dog on a beach: Orwellian. Private companies monitoring productivity in the workplace: Orwellian. Politicians lobbing threats at tech companies online: Orwellian. Lyon wrote that his views on Orwell have since evolved even further. Advertisement
The cause of the spike in Google’s text corpora would require further investigation, but notably coincides with the “unprecedented” expansion of police surveillance powers in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, leading up to the revelations that the Bush White House had, in 2002, authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to eavesdrop on Americans placing telephone calls and sending email messages overseas. Advertisement
Like Lyon, surveillance scholars John Gilliom and Torin Monahan, in the introduction to their 2012 book SuperVision, lay waste to “Big Brother,” inviting us to abandon the concept entirely, alongside misleading, “simplistic dichotomies,” such as “surveillance vs. privacy” or “privacy vs. freedom”. “The invasion of one’s mind by ready-made phrases can only be prevented if one is constantly on guard against them...”
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Similarly, English professor Peter Marks, in his own exhaustive study of surveillance depicted in film and literature, notes the menagerie of surveillance technologies revealed during the Snowden affair “bore little resemblance” to those of Orwell’s imaginings. Likewise — in a cycle as spiraling as Orwell’s metaphoric drunk — the surveillance culture produced by informational capitalism is now the very fuel on which informational capitalism thrives.
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