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I also have the title as "The Sheriff's Secret Police Would Like You To Speak Up." I feel like this inconsistency illustrates something important about the Kafkaesque nature of authority in Night Vale, where you can be punished for breaking rules that are impossible to follow, or that you didn't know existed.
This was an impromptu panel dealing with the surveillance state especially in the context of Welcome to Night Vale, Agents of Shield, Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier, and Person of Interest, (and also what Candra Gill called "cop-adjacent" genre shows that make use of the tools and techniques of surveillance.)
I am really interested in surveillance in Night Vale -- it's the thing in NV that is both really spooky and really reminiscent of the current state of things in the US. How you can have a surveillance state that's not a dystopia, that reflects the accomodations and acceptance that we all have to make in order to keep on living our lives, and sometimes it's horrifying and sometimes it seems so normal that you forget how horrifying it is. And I'm interested in the ambivalence/ambiguity/total moral incoherency of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in regards to surveillance. And this was my favorite panel this WisCon!
(Note: lots of people in the audience were people I know, but in my notes I've left them as just 'audience' mostly because I was typing really fast trying to get everybody's words in, also because I feel making a long-term and identifiable record of your words is kind of sketchy if you're not one of the people who volunteered for the panel. Because this panel is the kind of panel that makes you nervous about surveillance.)
( Contains some mild spoilers for Continuum, Welcome to Night Vale, Winter Soldier, Orphan Black, Elementary. Less minor spoilers for Agents of Shield, Person of Interest. )
This was an impromptu panel dealing with the surveillance state especially in the context of Welcome to Night Vale, Agents of Shield, Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier, and Person of Interest, (and also what Candra Gill called "cop-adjacent" genre shows that make use of the tools and techniques of surveillance.)
I am really interested in surveillance in Night Vale -- it's the thing in NV that is both really spooky and really reminiscent of the current state of things in the US. How you can have a surveillance state that's not a dystopia, that reflects the accomodations and acceptance that we all have to make in order to keep on living our lives, and sometimes it's horrifying and sometimes it seems so normal that you forget how horrifying it is. And I'm interested in the ambivalence/ambiguity/total moral incoherency of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in regards to surveillance. And this was my favorite panel this WisCon!
(Note: lots of people in the audience were people I know, but in my notes I've left them as just 'audience' mostly because I was typing really fast trying to get everybody's words in, also because I feel making a long-term and identifiable record of your words is kind of sketchy if you're not one of the people who volunteered for the panel. Because this panel is the kind of panel that makes you nervous about surveillance.)
( Contains some mild spoilers for Continuum, Welcome to Night Vale, Winter Soldier, Orphan Black, Elementary. Less minor spoilers for Agents of Shield, Person of Interest. )