The recording party vanishes from view as the recorded subject is fully exposed
Evidence
“If the recorded individual has come into full view, the recording individual has faded into the background, arguably to the point of extinction” (Fourcade and Healy, “Like a Market,” 11). — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 1000
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: A compact reversal of the usual surveillance framing: we obsess over being watched, but the deeper problem is that the watcher-as-actor becomes invisible, which is what makes the data economy seem natural rather than extractive.
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: does the platform’s self-effacement correlate with growing user resignation, i.e. is invisibility of the recorder a precondition for the naturalization of data extraction?
- XREF: connects to: An object’s being shifts between use and detached observation. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 215
Broader Connections
- An object’s being shifts between use and detached observation.
#complicates(0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 215