After privacy : surveillance culture and performative space
This dissertation explores the cultural ramifications of advanced surveillance technologies in contemporary society using theories of performativity. Drawing on examples from popular culture as wen as from contemporary art and performance, the dissertation develops a concept of "surveillance space"--a unique spatial experience that occurs for the subjects of surveillance. Whereas most discussions of surveillance take place within a frame of crime-prevention statistics or anxieties about privacy, this study suggests that surveillance systems are actually part of a "post-private" society, where spatial experiences very different from the public/private binary are developing
Thesis, Dissertation, English, ©1999