Spaces of Surveillance

Susan Flynn lectures at University of the Arts, London, UK, in Media Communications and Cultural Studies. A graduate of the Equality Studies Centre at University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland, her work to date has focussed on media representations of ability, medical surveillance and non-normative identities. Antonia Mackay lectures at Oxford Brookes University and Goldsmiths University of London, UK. Specialising in American literature, culture and theatre, her work is centred on American identity and the concerns of the 20th and  21st century.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Equality and Erasure: Response to Subject in the Art of Jill Magid.- 3. Camera Performed: Visualising the Behaviours of Technology in Digital Performance.- 4. She's Not There: Shallow Focus on Privacy, Surveillance and the Emerging Techno-mediated Modes of Being in Spike Jonze's Her.- 5. Surveillance in Zero Dark Thirty: Terrorism, Space and Identity.-6. To see and to be Seen: Surveillance, The Vampiric Lens and the Undead Subject.- 7. Watching Through Windows: Bret Easton Ellis and Urban Surveillance.- 8. Participating in '1984': The Surveillance of Sousveillance from White Noise to Right Now.- 9. Surveillance in Post-Postmodern American Fiction: Dave Eggers The Circle, Jonathan Franzen's Purity, and Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story.- 9. Citizen: Claudia Rankine, from the First to the Second Person.- 10. Castrating Blackness: Surveillance, Profiling and Management in the Canadian Context'.- 11. Sousveillance asa Tool in US Civic Polity.- 12. Medical Surveillance and Bodily Privacy: Secret Selves and Graph Diaspora.-

“Spaces of Surveillance will prove to be invaluable resources for researchers of surveillance studies, as well as those interested in digital culture, technology, biopolitics, film studies, and literary studies. The quality of the analyses in this highly stimulatingvolume itself provides a case for reading Flynn and McKay’s book, while the novelty of the topics found therein no doubt broadens our perspective on the current state of surveillance and the cultural impact it constitutes.” (Barnabás Baranyi, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 25 (1), 2019)