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Surveillance

Overthink

CHAPTER

I'm Not Surveiling, but I Can't Drink Yahaa Right Now

i think we are consenting to new and dangerous modes of surveillance in exchange for these technologies, basically off loading the essence of our humanity. I really enjoyed tracking my time and realizing that what i thought i spent my day doing is actually kind of different from how i actually spent my time during the day. So i don't necessarily think that recording your activities and the splitting of the self that that involves is a nefarious form of surveillance. But there's a danger that we end up seeing ourselves as the data double rather than as the multiplicitous, multfarious, constantly in process self that we are. Although maybe i'm just drinking the coolete of feeling free.

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