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We Live In Public

Josh Harris

• New York
• 1980 Saw a course on webster, saw where the world was going and created companies around that.

Jupiter communications Prodigy

Gave legendary parties with models

Pseudo First internet television network with chat. Comparison to Warhols factory. Network of people

"We are in the business to program peoples live"

Disciplinairy society: capsular societies

1999 – Quiet (We live in public)

• Underground society (one month?)
• Capsular hotel
• Cameras everywhere - social experiment
• Citizen of quiet
• Everything is free - your gonna live here, and we're gonna film everything
• "cult" "kookie kingdom"
• Give all personal information
• Michael Portnoy as well
• Room is your "pod", everyone had uniforms, tv's everywhere, cameras everywhere.
• "15 minutes of fame everyday"
• "We are all sharing, no secrets"
• "everything is exposed"
• "I don't even notice it anymore"
• "We don't even realise how much we are being filmed anymore"

• Stasi-like interegation
• interregation room was kinda like torture, so abusive
• brainwashed, mind control
• Everyone was sort of rats in his labratory

• Running around naked and shooting around fire-arms

Surveillance police state When entering you gave away all your rights, all is his now.

World war III will be most important in 21st century --> man against machine

Ultimate panopticon

Samira: People are more likely to artificially represent themselves and edit themselves, instead of giving all information.

The more we expose the more lonely we become.

1971: Philip Sinbardo - Stanford Prison Experiment

(were more experiments: Milgram) (first one that was filmed 24h) (no independent control)

People are taking up forms/roles. Quite predictable ones. 90's NY culture.

Benjamin Benson (panopticon)

• We Live In Public
• He installed 32 cameras in his home where he lived with his girlfriend. Everything was filmed.
• Living in public ended up creating alienation. No real connection.

Assisting in management of your life. Everything changes when your arguing in public. Self-editing. Ego. "famous"

In Quiet he was in control of his lab rats. In Living In Public he was the lab rats.

Selfworth related to viewers

Operator 11

We enjoy the attention. "Everything is free, exept for the video, that we own. We're going to sell you your life back"

Josh made more of a panopticon

• Panopticon: few are viewing the many.
• Synopticon: many are viewing the few.

Informational intersections (deleuze)

Flow of information instead of contain

Since 2008 we've begun to come up with strategies for privacy

Organizing your freedom (flickr, facebook) Chloe: Like a prison is also organized.

Natalie: Without discipline and control we don't have a society.

• We are controlling ourselves, we are giving the information ourselves.
• Trained to be in a position of constant performance.
• We want to believe there is a controlling machinism around us. But actually watching ourselves and each other. Self-awareness. Key to disciplinary society, but also control.

FLOW! We are particles of information that are flowing. We are generating information. We are complete commodities. We perform ourselves.

Why do we still feel free and happy? All the evidence points to other direction.

Marxist Production of desire

What kind of society would you would like to produce?

Natalie: We can not have freedom and be in a healthy society Julia: We need restrictions Illusion that we don't have to govern ourselves, we only participate.

Adam Smith: Welth of nations Marktet: Self-regulating agent. (Illusion) Society are self-regulating Self organization of organisms (via Darwin, to Marx)

Disciplinary society

• Capsular
• Discursing space
• Samira: Honor code of conduct, timetable is key. In Josh example that's not the case
• Steve: Ideology of freedom. Push against something to feel free.

Access to perticular code so we The Barracks, school,