Digital self-tracking makes each person a self-surveilling guard and inmate in one.

Evidence

The auto-exploiting subject carries around its own labour camp; here, it is perpetrator and victim at one and the same time. As a self-illuminating, self-surveilling subject, it bears its own, internal panopticon within; here, there is no difference between guard and inmate. The digitalized, networked subject is a panopticon of itself. This ensures that each and every person has now taken on the task of conducting perpetual auto-surveillance. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 139

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The internalized panopticon where surveiller and surveilled collapse into one subject is a genuinely paradigm-shifting reframing of Foucault for the digital age.
• XREF: Connects to the We (Zamyatin) total system and to the internal surveillance themes in the reader’s own library; also the natural successor to Discipline and Punish’s external panopticon. — connects to: Digital surveillance works because people voluntarily expose themselves — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 32; One observation action suffices to make prisoners police their own behavior permanently — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 59; Surveillance controls populations chiefly through internalized self-policing — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 44 (+3 more)
• ADDENDUM: Relevant to ‘On Sacrifice’ only loosely, but directly extends the infrastructure metaphor of ‘Grafting & Growth’ into the digital-social realm as an invisible infrastructure of control.

Related

• Digital surveillance works because people voluntarily expose themselves (similarity 0.84)
• The digital panopticon fails to register as surveillance because its subjects feel free (similarity 0.82)
• Surveillance controls populations chiefly through internalized self-policing (similarity 0.81)
• Visible surveillance makes subjects police themselves without any force (similarity 0.80)
• Workers in new bureaucracies become their own auditors under internalized surveillance (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Complete surveillance requires those watched to begin monitoring themselves. #corroborates (0.95)
• Surveillance controls populations chiefly through internalized self-policing #corroborates (0.90) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 44
• Digital surveillance works because people voluntarily expose themselves #expands (0.80) — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 32
• One observation action suffices to make prisoners police their own behavior permanently #exemplifies (0.75) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 59
• Each person’s situation is uniquely theirs, a gate built for one #qualifies (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1281
• Routine bodily self-monitoring has become a competitive, profit-generating infrastructure #complicates (0.72) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 25