The Simulation of Surveillance: Hypercontrol in Telematic Societies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521555616)

This compelling book, first published in 1996, 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 forms of control which hyper realise 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.

Author: William Bogard
ISBN-10: 0521555612
ISBN-13: 9780521555616
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/18/1996
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.03w x 0.55d