This article explores a range of technologies for 'lateral surveillance' or peer monitoring arguing that in a climate of perceived risk and savvy skepticism individuals are increasingly adopting practices associated with marketing and law enforcement to gain information about friends, family members, and prospective love interests. The article argues that the adoption of such technologies corresponds with an ideology of 'responsibilization' associated with the risk society: that consumers need training in the consumption of services and the development of expertise to monitor one another. Rather than displacing 'top-down' forms of monitoring, such practices emulate and amplify them, fostering the internalization of government strategies and their deployment in the private sphere. In an age in which everyone is to be considered potentially suspect, all are simultaneously urged to become spies.

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The Identity of the Body

The Work of Watching One Another: Lateral Surveillance, Risk, and Governance

Education is commonly understood as an interaction between subjects; an interaction between the educator, who already is a subject, and the child, who has to become a subject by means of the pedagogical activities of the educator. Postmodernism has seriously challenged the common (modern) understanding of human subjectivity. The question therefore is what his challenge entails for our understanding of the process of education. In this paper this question is taken up in the context of a distinction between two conceptions of education: education as manipulation and education as communication. It is argued that the manipulative conception is closely related to the modern understanding of human subjectivity, as is the critique leveled against the communicative conception. In order to find out whether the postmodern "deconstruction" of the modern understanding of human subjectivity opens up new possibilities for a communicative understanding of education, Foucault's analysis of the emergence and subversion of the modern conception of man is presented and discussed. Although Foucault's work points into the direction of the recognition of the primacy of the intersubjective - and in this sense supports a communicative understanding of education - his deconstruction also makes clear that intersubjectivity cannot be understood as a new deep truth about man. This means that pedagogy has to do without humanism. The paper concludes with some reflections on such a pedagogy without humanism.

Pedagogy Without Humanism: Foucault and the Subject of Education.

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Cette these examine la nature complexe de l'identite dans les jeux video solo Elle introduit la notion d'identite-hybride, et propose un cadre analytique pour deconstruire la jouabilite a travers les genres afin de distinguer des moments d’emergence d’identite
 
Alors que la recherche sur l’identite se concentre couramment sur le joueur ou le personnage-joueur (ou les deux), la notion d'identite-hybride est une forme d’identite fluide, parfois ephemere, qui existe entre le joueur et le personnage-joueur L’identite-hybride se developpe au cours du processus de jeu et inclut necessairement le joueur (experience, contexte de jeu, etc ), l’environnement du jeu (le design, les mecaniques, etc), et la mediation technologique (ordinateur, console, etc) qui facilite la jouabilite

Afin de cerner les differents aspects du gameplay qui contribuent a l'emergence de differents types d'identite, un cadre multiforme a ete concu pour isoler les interactions specifiques? qui comprennent les interactions joueur/personnage-joueur, personnage-joueur/personnage non-joueur, joueur/environnement du jeu, personnage-joueur /environnement de jeux, et joueur/joueur Il a ete associe a un cadre secondaire qui comprend l'examen des specificites du joueur individuel et la mediation technologique qui facilitent le jouabilite Une analyse systematique d’experiences de jeu et des elements de design de trois jeux differents; Mirror’s Edge (DICE, 2008), Alone in the Dark (Eden Games, 2008), et Fable 2 (Lionhead Studios, 2008), a ete realisee pour illustrer les differents degres d’apparition d'identite dans differentes structures de jeu

En comparant les trois analyses, l'utilite de ce cadre pour mettre de l’avant les elements qui contribuent au (ou peuvent entraver) le developpement de l'identite et, plus specifiquement, l'apparition de l'identite-hybride, est demontree Ces trois exemples jettent les bases d'une discussion plus profonde sur la definition, le contexte, et le processus d’identite-hybride dans les jeux video en general

The Identity of the Body

Citations

The Work of Watching One Another: Lateral Surveillance, Risk, and Governance

Pedagogy Without Humanism: Foucault and the Subject of Education.

Between play and design : the emergence of hybrid-identity in single-player videogames

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