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The Watchman in Pieces - Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood (Hardcover, New)
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The Watchman in Pieces - Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood (Hardcover, New)
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Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book
examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed
together, as kindred modern practices. As ideas about
personhood-what constitutes a self-have changed over time, so too
have ideas about how to represent, shape, or invade the self. The
authors show that, since the Renaissance, changes in observation
strategies have driven innovations in literature; literature, in
turn, has provided a laboratory and forum for the way we think
about surveillance and privacy. Ultimately, they contend that the
habits of mind cultivated by literature make rational and
self-aware participation in contemporary surveillance environments
possible. In a society increasingly dominated by interlocking
surveillance systems, these habits of mind are consequently
necessary for fully realized liberal citizenship.
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