
Read My Desire, Pt. 1: Gaze and Excess
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The NSA Knows How to Read Your Desire
Jones: Foucault is like a cop, he doesn't try to read desire. The reason the cops in Edgar Allan Poe's story can't find the purlowing letter is because they don't read the desire of the minister. And so, and that's why not through information or not through information, right? No matter how much data you collect. Jones: If you notice the panopticon, it's not working. It's an incredibly basic, but really important point.
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