panopticon implodes, details at 11

t byfield tbyfield at panix.com
Wed Nov 10 07:16:21 PST 1999



> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 12:05:35 +1000
> From: Catherine Driscoll <catherine.driscoll at adelaide.edu.au>

<...>
> >the article says that the employees swapped 'EZPasses' in order to
> >obscure who was doing what. so, o theorists, was that 'an act of
> >resistance'?

<...>
> of course. the question should be 'what resistance is it?'

or maybe what resistances is it? (awkward, like 'the wages of sin is death.') because 'resistance' implies a force to be resisted-- and there's hardly one such force bearing on this (or any) situa- tion. but what do you think about this? in a way, it seems like a very nice micromodel of a Very Big Problem.

cheers, t



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