2,075 research outputs found
A Discussion on Life Systems Security and the Systems Approach
The relationship between information technology and information security historically has been quite reactive. New innovations in information technology have often been accompanied by new security threats that create challenges to its reliability and overall integrity. In this paper, a historical perspective that outlines the evolution in the development of the security function is used as a starting base. Changes in the way security issues are viewed and how this view affects the design and development of secure systems are then postulated. It is proposed that these changes should be incorporated into the security functions of any waterfall development model, and especially during the initial and terminating stages
The importance of truth and sousveillance after Snowden
This article aims to provide a novel conceptual understanding of the nature of
the global mass surveillance policies and practices revealed by whistleblower
Edward Snowden in collaboration with the Guardian and Washington Post
newspapers. The critical analysis and conceptual reinterpretation of state and
corporate surveillance and its impact on the political agency of civil society
is multidisciplinary. An intersection of surveillance studies, political
philosophy, and global politics/international relations provides an overview
of the policies and practices that states and corporations develop and
implement in relation to information and communications technologies (ICT).
Clarifying how contemporary society is global and digital, it analyzes the way
in which political economies inform contemporary policies and practices of
surveillance. A critical analysis the relation of political economy to
neoliberal governmentality, biopolitical technologies of power, and
contemporary regimes of truth, leads to posit that global mass surveillance is
a technology of power deployed by a contemporary biopolitics of information
and communication. A conceptual reinterpretation of Foucault’s notion of
parrhesia and Mann’s notion of sousveillance leads to posit that parrhesiastic
sousveillance is a socio-political and technologically-enabled modality of
resistance that can resemantize contemporary politics of truth and lead
towards a newborn digital agency for global(ized) civil society
Sylvia Plath
Originally published in 1979. Sylvia Plath is one of the most controversial poets of our time. For some readers, she is the symbol of women oppressed. For others, she is the triumphant victim of her own intensity—the poet pursuing sensation to the ultimate uncertainty, death. For still others, she is a doomed innocent whose sensibilities were too acute for the coarseness of our world. The new essays of this edited collection (with a single exception, all were written for this book) broaden the perspective of Plath criticism by going beyond the images of Plath as a cult figure to discuss Plath the poet. The contributors—among them Calvin Bedient, Hugh Kenner, J. D. O'Hara, and Marjorie Perloff—draw on material that most previous commentators lacked: a substantial body of Plath's poetry and prose, a moderately detailed biographical record, and an important selection of the poet's correspondence. The result is an important and provocative volume, one in which major critics offer an abundance of insights into the poet's mind and creative process. It offers insightful and original readings of many poems—some, like "Berck-Plage," scarcely mentioned in previous criticism—and fosters new understandings of such matters as Plath's comedy, the development of her poetic voice, and her relation to poetic traditions. The serious reader, whatever his or her initial opinion of Sylvia Plath, is sure to find that opinion challenged, changed, or deepened. These essays offer insights into a violently interesting poet, one who despite, or perhaps because of, her suicide at age thirty continues to fascinate and trouble us
- …