Privacy

Post-Privacy or the Politics of Labour, Intelligence and Information

This text argues that the erosion of privacy is not a by-product of information and communication technologies, but a systemic property of informational capitalism. The foundational myths of the information society motivate and legitimise the building of control systems applying probabilistic techniques to control future risks. At the root of this configuration are antagonistic labour relationships which have determined the path of technological development since the Industrial Revolution. Those tendencies have reached a culmination in the recent neo-liberal crisis. The digital commons offers itself as an incomplete and tentative remedy.

Webcasts of the Goodbye Privacy Symposium

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Goodbye Privacy Symposium I

Welcome Gerfried Stocker (just available in German)
mms://stream.aec.at/webcasts/FE_2007_S1_01_GerfriedStocker_D.wmv

Introduction
mms://stream.aec.at/webcasts/FE_2007_S1_02_Moderation_E.wmv

The Value of Privacy (just available in German)
mms://stream.aec.at/webcasts/FE_2007_S1_03_BeateRoessler_D.wmv

Introduction Jordan Crandall and Erich Moechel
mms://stream.aec.at/webcasts/FE_2007_S1_04_Tabletalk_E.wmv

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