Comments on: Twitter: Voluntary Panopticon-as-Leisure http://www.alterati.com/blog/2008/09/twitter-as-voluntary-panopticon-as-leisure/ After a long day, we know you can work up quite a thirst for tasty entrainment. Search no further. Alterati is the spot for home-brewed, 100 proof podcasts of the Alterati.com editorial team. In it you will find a delectable blend of original musics, audiobook and drama excerpts, interviews with artists and media theorists of the fringe, and hints of strawberry and motor oil. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:13:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Barce http://www.alterati.com/blog/2008/09/twitter-as-voluntary-panopticon-as-leisure/comment-page-1/#comment-160007 Barce Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:03:14 +0000 http://www.alterati.com/blog/?p=2046#comment-160007 Hey, thanks for posting this. If twitter is the panopticon, then how can what is done in it not have meaning? Or to ask it in a different way, how can my self-incarceration through a system of power knowledge not have semantic content? I think we'd agree that there is no Semantic content from a Prince (Machiavelli), and thought power now operates without the Prince, but still isn't there some meaning through some sort of genealogy? Hey, thanks for posting this. If twitter is the panopticon, then how can what is done in it not have meaning? Or to ask it in a different way, how can my self-incarceration through a system of power knowledge not have semantic content? I think we’d agree that there is no Semantic content from a Prince (Machiavelli), and thought power now operates without the Prince, but still isn’t there some meaning through some sort of genealogy?

]]> By: Casey O'Donnell http://www.alterati.com/blog/2008/09/twitter-as-voluntary-panopticon-as-leisure/comment-page-1/#comment-160006 Casey O'Donnell Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:31:38 +0000 http://www.alterati.com/blog/?p=2046#comment-160006 Shira... Great post. While I agree to some extent, I wonder if Twitter, like any apparatus of the Panopticon also has deterritorializing capacities? I read, "At the supermarket. Price of Velveta up $.30. Enraged," and begin to wonder what revolutionary capacities it might have. I submit for your consideration that <a href="http://www.fuckingnda.com/" rel="nofollow">Fuckingnda.com</a> represents precisely the capacity that these systems also have to promote disobedience. Without this Twitter-space, its possible that Apple iPhone developers may not have galvanized. Could it have happened another way? Certainly, but the Twitter aspects are interesting. So I do agree, to an extent. At the same time I wonder if it represents a tool which can mobilize our rapidly growing lower middle class. Imagine a Twitter-wave of, "Milk costs 4x as much as soda, and I just overdrew while buying groceries, and little Johnny broke his arm during recess. Something is jacked." Shira… Great post. While I agree to some extent, I wonder if Twitter, like any apparatus of the Panopticon also has deterritorializing capacities? I read, “At the supermarket. Price of Velveta up $.30. Enraged,” and begin to wonder what revolutionary capacities it might have.

I submit for your consideration that Fuckingnda.com represents precisely the capacity that these systems also have to promote disobedience. Without this Twitter-space, its possible that Apple iPhone developers may not have galvanized. Could it have happened another way? Certainly, but the Twitter aspects are interesting.

So I do agree, to an extent. At the same time I wonder if it represents a tool which can mobilize our rapidly growing lower middle class. Imagine a Twitter-wave of, “Milk costs 4x as much as soda, and I just overdrew while buying groceries, and little Johnny broke his arm during recess. Something is jacked.”

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