tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030220433025894048.post512024821725938115..comments2023-11-03T08:02:25.369-04:00Comments on AmericanScience: A Team Blog: The Oceanic Abyss and our Modern Expectations of Perception David Roth Singermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12841041983824755867noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030220433025894048.post-32015768815305958012014-09-21T15:27:02.544-04:002014-09-21T15:27:02.544-04:00Very interesting post, Leah - thanks! Amidst the ...Very interesting post, Leah - thanks! Amidst the discussions of the limits of surveillance in the wake of 370, I hadn't yet heard anyone bring up the surface vs. depth distinction.<br /><br />I'm curious which (if either) of the following two directions you'd go with this insight: <br /><br />Option 1: there is a third geographic dimension of surveillance that we haven't yet reckoned with. We should pay attention to depth as well as coordinate location as we attend to the further expansion of surveillance technologies, their promise, the kinds of political culture that they facilitate, their limits, the threats their pose, opportunities for adapting or subverting them, etc. etc. (Let's call this "the Rankin.")<br /><br />Option 2: Yet another instance in which our techno-utopianism/dystopianism has revealed itself to be way overblown, and distracts us from questions of real political import ("the Morozov.")<br /><br /><br />Evanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18194354174479536249noreply@blogger.com