Panopticon, Rodney, and MySpace
Can Racism also pervade black perception of the Rodney King event? Black class paranoia or suburban Black spatialized paranoia over urban infiltration that is also coded as violence and crime? Where “normal” Black individuals identity themselves against the “abnormal” criminality of Rodney King? Butler notes that the video is s “ritual production of Blackness” but which kind of Blackness does this refer to? Foucault does note that power assigns truth to bodies but not along binary distinction but toward multiple separations. Therefore, “racism” is not only implicating black/white relations but intraracial and ethnic tensions as well.
The disciplining project of power seems to rely on a processes that “individualize the excluded but uses procedures of individualization mark exclusion (Foucault, 199).” I’m wondering how digital devices that connect us to others, allow us to cocoon, and help us navigate our environments contribute to a different concept of individualization? Or how do digital technologies add to the abnormal/normal distinction that produce individuals and therefore allow individuals to be excluded?
Does the asynchronous and eternal accessible nature of social interaction via social networking sites expand the reaches that the logics of power must encompass and therefore as I think Sassen would argue makes more spaces for resistance to power and visibility for the disempowered.
Space: A infinite processes whereby interconnecting systems of global, social, cultural and embodied knowledges inform the value of place through the logics of power. Space is a right.
Place: Fixed in the material and moving freely. Facilitated by place marking objects like maps.
Identity: How you make sense of places’ relationships to the idea of individualism.