“A comment regarding the latest episode about monitoring. It claims not all monitoring is trying to control or contain us…yet every researcher discusses their product’s massive potential for abuse - and how they’re ploughing forward anyway. Widespread monitoring - say in your flooring, or the wheel of your car - may seem innocuous, but these researchers don’t seem to ever consider how it affects the human psyche to know you are constantly being observed? No matter how ‘unobtrusive’ it is, all monitoring is containment, as it encourages performativity by its very design. Medical researchers really need to engage with the work of cyber culture theorists and philosophers of the past 30 years to fully consider these ideas.
Love the podcast - even though I am constantly frustrated by the short-sidedness and poor ethical considerations of so many researchers. Thanks for bringing light to this systemic problem”
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Australia ·
11/07/22