Comments on: 'What would Borges do?' http://www.ballardian.com/what-would-borges-do Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:27:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Simon Sellars http://www.ballardian.com/what-would-borges-do/comment-page-1#comment-1211 Simon Sellars Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:13:44 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/what-would-borges-do#comment-1211 Tim, ubiquitous surveillance replicates the effects of religion throughout the ages. What's the difference between knowing that 'god' is watching everything you do and knowing there's a camera recording your every move? This is entering Philip K Dick territory. Rick, I think Tim's more on the money: some kind of bug on the lens. Tim, ubiquitous surveillance replicates the effects of religion throughout the ages. What’s the difference between knowing that ‘god’ is watching everything you do and knowing there’s a camera recording your every move? This is entering Philip K Dick territory.

Rick, I think Tim’s more on the money: some kind of bug on the lens.

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]]> By: Rick McGrath http://www.ballardian.com/what-would-borges-do/comment-page-1#comment-1209 Rick McGrath Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:10:41 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/what-would-borges-do#comment-1209 Hah! I know what the ghost is... the geometry of its motion gives it away: it's a superimposed vid of a very blurry little fish of some sort... note the subtle, telltale jerks that propel it. Hah! I know what the ghost is… the geometry of its motion gives it away: it’s a superimposed vid of a very blurry little fish of some sort… note the subtle, telltale jerks that propel it.

]]> By: Tim Chapman http://www.ballardian.com/what-would-borges-do/comment-page-1#comment-1210 Tim Chapman Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:55:51 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/what-would-borges-do#comment-1210 "a ‘typically idiotic local news piece about a “ghost” visible in gas-station surveillance footage.’ It’s clearly a digitally generated animation. I reckon the petrol station is trying to drum up business, as one of PB’s readers suggested." Looked more like something on, or very close to, the camera lens to me. 'Fortean Times' recently had an entertaining article in which an investigator tried to replicate a similar CCTV 'ghost' film by getting bugs to crawl over the camera. It worked, eventually. More generally, it's a trite observation that people act differently when they're being filmed. So what effect does ubiquitous surveillance have on everyday human acts? “a ‘typically idiotic local news piece about a “ghost” visible in gas-station surveillance footage.’ It’s clearly a digitally generated animation. I reckon the petrol station is trying to drum up business, as one of PB’s readers suggested.”

Looked more like something on, or very close to, the camera lens to me. ‘Fortean Times’ recently had an entertaining article in which an investigator tried to replicate a similar CCTV ‘ghost’ film by getting bugs to crawl over the camera. It worked, eventually.

More generally, it’s a trite observation that people act differently when they’re being filmed. So what effect does ubiquitous surveillance have on everyday human acts?

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