Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT Press)
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In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics. A work that bridges media archaeology and visual culture studies argues that the Internet has emerged as a mass medium by linking control with freedom and democracy. In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom.
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It's a sharp and often stunning analysis that lays bare the ideological stakes of such notions as user-friendliness, protecting children, and techno-Orientalism -- a must-read for anyone interested in media archaeology or cyber-politics. Professor Chun's book interview ran here as cover feature on March 17, One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun presents a compelling look at cyber-culture and the discipline of the control-freedom dynamic. She looks primarily at pornography and cyberpunk literature for her analysis, integrating the views of Foucault, Deleuze, Debord, and others. One person found this helpful.
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Indeed, in exposing us to an alterity that threatens our own identity, the Internet offers us a valuable yet vulnerable freedom that is the opposite of control. Even when effective, agency is always compromised; to be an agent is to act but also to be acted upon. When we are online we are circulated, even disseminated, without our knowledge. There is no online interaction that does not leave traces. Accordingly, Chun urges us to understand agency as entailing dispossession as much as self-possession.
She convincingly relates the technical details of how the Internet works to larger theoretical issues. Methodologically, her work falls between the fields of visual cultural studies and media studies.
In terms of networked telecommunication technology, the former emphasizes software and the latter hardware. Media studies argues that the distinction between software and hardware is only ideological, and thus false. But Chun does not, like most writers within media studies, simply dismiss the persistent ideology of user control.
She seeks to expose it by understanding it.