Category: Privacy & Identity
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Black Listing Then and Now?: Similarities and Continuities
On February 6, 2018 “Black Listed” held its second class. We began the class with what is now becoming a usual fashion: we welcomed each other, grabbed a few snacks and directed ourselves to the assigned text. For this week, students were to have read William J. Maxwell‘s “Total Literary Awareness.” As the class opened, we […]
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Upcoming Conference February 16-17, 2018 “Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence”
Do not miss the Scholar and Feminist Conference: “Subverting Surveillance: Strategies To End State Violence” on February 16-17 at the Diana Center at Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027. This conference will feature Simone Browne, Ruth Wilson Gilmore (CUNY Graduate Center, EES), Inderpal Grewal (Yale), Mariame Kaba, Cara Page (BCRW), Nandita Sharma (U of Hawai’i, Manoa), and Dean Spade. According to […]
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Orwell: The Right to Internet Privacy and Why There May Be Hope Yet (or Not)
Like most who attended high school in the States, I read George Orwell’s proverbial classic Nineteen Eighty-Four as a teenager, and (as every good eighteen-year-old in America should be) was frightened by the book’s implications and depictions of the cultism that can arise in a totalitarian society run by an omnipresent authority figure. Upon discovering […]
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“Data, Privacy, and Personhood: A (Re-)view of Meg Leta Jones’s Ctrl+Z: The Right to Be Forgotten”
In music scholarship, the idea of infinite repeatability is one of the characteristics that separates recorded performance from “live” performance. For consumers, this means that one can (almost) always return to a favorite recording and play it as many times as one finds edifying, whereas the concert hall, opera house, or most any other performance […]