http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-559547/Graffiti-artist-Banksy-pulls-audacious-stunt-date--despite-watched-CCTV.html
This is a very old news article, but I'm something of a Banksy fan so I couldn't resist.
I thought of this blunt, almost forceful image of CCTV in society, as quite a nice contrast with Allen's, guards-and-cameras-free, "phenomenological" form of power and control in privatised public spaces. Perhaps the obscene security camera density in the UK creates a slightly different situation than in Germany?
Thoughts anyone?
Riordan
Banksy on CCTV
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DL - there must be sociological studies of this out there. But perhaps more recent evidence might just be from comments by the public, ie. average bystander, in the wake of the London riots. It would be interesting to find out if the constant surveillance (marked and unmarked) has contributed to the level of tensions within society. There certainly are TV and film depictions of what it is like to be living in "Big Brother" society - in the series "Spooks" for example, CCTV is often the first and foundational tool and archive used to figure out what occurred, and what is happening in real time. So yes, to what extent have we internalised the camera's gaze, and is the assumption that CCTV is everywhere the ambient effect that allen is talking about? ie. the camera may or may not be there, or even switched on, but the symbolic transformation of space has already occurred.
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