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The Simulation of Surveillance : Hypercontrol in Telematic Societies (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies)
The Simulation of Surveillance Hypercontrol in Telematic Societies - Cambridge Cultural Social Studies Author:William Bogard This compelling book is an exploration of the imaginary of perceptual control technologies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. William Bogard constructs a 'social science fiction' of how the revolution in simulation technology reconfigures and intensifies the role of surveillance in war, work, sexuality, and private life, enabling form... more »s of control which hyper realize our experience of time, space, agency, and society itself. His is a critique of the imaginary in which control breaks free of its prior limits, an imaginary of unmediated perception with effects everywhere in fantastic systems for the relentless conversion of objects, events, and people into information.« less