Data Banked Bodies: New Global Technologies of Power

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dc.contributor.authorPfohl, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-25T20:48:00Z
dc.date.available2015-11-25T20:48:00Z
dc.date.copyright2004en_US
dc.date.issued2004-10-22
dc.description.abstractDr. Stephen Pfohl’s presentation, “Data Banked Bodies: New Global Technologies of Power” is a mixed-media performance exploring the social, psychic, and economic dynamics of information — intensive forms of global capitalist technology. Stephen Pfohl is Professor and Chairperson of the Sociology Department at Boston College where he teaches courses on social theory, deviance and social control, postmodernity, social psychoanalysis, and the sociology of technology, art, and culture. The author of numerous books and articles, including Images of Deviance and Social Control (McGraw Hill, 1994), Death at the Parasite Cafe (St. Martin’s press 1992), and the forthcoming Venus in Video: Cybernetics and Ultramodern Power. Stephen is also Past President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, a member of the editorial board of CTheory, performance artist, and founding member of the Boston-based Sit-Com International.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusUnrevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipArthur Kroker, Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theoryen_US
dc.identifier.citationPfohl, Stephen. "Data Banked Bodies: New Global Technologies of Power." Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, Victoria, B.C. October 22 2004. Presentation.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://pactac.net/2004/10/data-banked-bodies-new-global-technologies-of-power/
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/6837
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPacific Centre for Technology and Cultureen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBodies in the Wires Symposiumen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectdata banked bodies
dc.subjectglobal capitalist technology
dc.subjecteconomic dynamics of information
dc.subjecttechnologies of power
dc.subjectmixed-media performances
dc.subjectpolitics of cybernetics
dc.subjectfeedback loops
dc.subjectinformation and bodies
dc.subjectcybernetics
dc.subjectcybernetic power
dc.subjectPacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC)
dc.titleData Banked Bodies: New Global Technologies of Poweren_US
dc.typeVideoen_US

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