In a strange, and somewhat unsettling, want to welcome Freshman and transfer students — while also, it seems, starting their own private human genome database of admitted genius thinkers — UC Berkeley is requiring the collection of DNA samples.
Continue reading → UC Berkeley Requires Freshman DNA Samples
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is watching you. They’re following you on the social networks and making note of your friends. MIT also has divined if you’re Gay or not — based solely on who your friends are and what relationships they have besides yours.
When I started this Panopticonic blog on November 27, 2008, there was no such word as “Panopticonic” in the world. I invented the meaning of the idea and applied it to an invented word.
I created “Panopticonic” to give this blog a unique meaning in an identifiable niche.
The NSA are at it again. They’re watching your email and finding you guilty of impure and dangerous thoughts.
Jamie Grace wrote this article.
The journalist Pete Warren noted in an article for The Guardian (UK) earlier this month that Google have duly noted, anticipated and are working toward solving the major problem that exists in attempting to link mobile Internet technology, social networking and online advertising. Google have developed their Orkut social networking application specifically for mobile phones – and so hope to dominate the most powerful form of advertising yet commercially developed – and in future, perhaps the most invasive as well as the most lucrative.
Continue reading → Panopticonic Consumerism or Mad Marketing?
Meet Denise Albright, Michael McKie, and Khalid Nelson. They ran the Rikers Island Fight Club, known as “The Program” — where certain inmates were beaten by other inmates on “The Team” — but these three were not inmates. They were Rikers Island officers.
Continue reading → Compressing Concentricities: The Rikers Island Fight Club
Twitter is the most Panopticonic method of self-regulating your own incarceration: You’re basically talking to yourself out loud without any real context because you’re typing; but when a friend challenged me — nay, DARED ME — to try Twitter: “How can you hate it if you never tried it?” The gauntlet was thrown, the face was slapped, the dare: Accepted! You can see my Twitter homepage below: http://twitter.com/BolesBlogs
In a big win for the civil liberties of innocent people charged with a crime, but never proven guilty, the court in Strasbourg recently ruled 857,000 DNA profiles must be destroyed, and not kept in a database, for future surveillance.
Barack Obama’s courting of the Gay Community is over. He won. They Gays are out. The hateful Rick Warren is in.
Continue reading → Convenience Over Conscience: Obama is Over the Gays
The Boles Blogs Network is delighted to announce the creation of three new blogs for your reading pleasure that focus on news, commentary and analysis of three important themes that run throughout this Urban Semiotic blog. The first — Panopticonic — concerns us watching those watching us. Jeremy Bentham invented the idea of a “panopticon” in 1787:
A circular prison with cells arranged around a central well, from which
inmates can be observed at all times. Also in extended use.
Today, Panopticonic helps us fight back against the decay of personal privacy under the eyeing thumb of those that surveil us on a daily basis.
Continue reading → Announcing Panopticonic, Carceral Nation and Memeingful
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