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Someone you cant see is watching you. That idea, long the stuff of feverish dystopian fantasy, is now an unremarkable statement of fact, true in most public places, and true in many that used to be private. Yet most of us being watched have no idea how this vast, casual surveillance came to be, or how it works. *The Inspection House* is a remedy for our collective incomprehension of the panopticon, built in our name, that we all now inhabit. — Clay Shirky a plug for a new book. and i have my fall book round-up in the making, stay tuned, SO MANY THINGS TO READ...this is a new one by my pal TIM MALYfrom Berkman Center for Internet & Society.... if youre IN NYC, hes got a launch event coming up day after tomorrow in BROOKLYN at Local 61 chbooks/events/oct-23-emily-tim-launch-inspection-house-61-local-brooklyn-ny-2014-10-23 .............. book is available at amazon or STRAIGHT FROM THE PUBLISHER HERE: chbooks/catalogue/inspection-house amazon/The-Inspection-House-Impertinent-Surveillance/dp/1552453014/
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