Final Paper Proposal

Photo Theory:

Sci-fi narration of what the world will be like in the future and how photo/surveillance will have completely changed the way we look at our past and attribute to it and also will change the way we interact with people and our surroundings.

Universe/Time Description:

Earth will be completely obliterated from pollution and waste from humans.  People will have to move alternative planets that are all connected with web that allows them to interact with each other through photos and text.  Everyone will be segregated into these bubbles in which they will live out there whole life.  (Panopticon)

Communication/Photo Theory

Within the web each person can construct their life using photos and text as they wish (Facebook). All of the photos will found photos, that were digitally logged, that were left after the destruction of earth.(digital space) This opens the door for anyone to create a narrative that would be completely fictional because there would no longer be a need to prove anything that you depicting seeing as the narrative you are creating about the present is completely routed in the past. 

Ideas will generate on how documentation now will be the only thing connecting mankind to each other the way we know it now and that everyone is consumed by creating this “life” that is a delusional makeup of what they want to project or what they want to be remembered by.

Discuss panopticon idea by referencing it to the way people display there life on this “web” and how the idea of maybe someone could be reading it and how that changes what they create when in fact they are unsure if anyone else is alive or able to see it. 

Also reference in George Orwell’s 1984 book, which takes about big brother and the idea of how the government will control everything, etc.  The web will be the new government, its how people act and communicate, it looks at you and logs what you are doing and how maybe it can use that as a tool to create a new earth.

How photos are complete representations of the past and that affects this new reality.  Think about Camera Lucida and how there are “just” photographs that can depict a person or even landscape and how that idea comes into play when you are creating this new identity. 

Include ideas of how surveillance is used now and how it is readying us for the future (data banking our lives) and also inventions like the Memento camera also aid in this preparation. 

The web will also be a controller of what images are shown maybe? This could affect the way we recall situations “an image comes first and then adds a frisson to reality” (L’Esprit Du Terrorisme by Baudrillard) Maybe earth isn’t destroyed at all but the illusion of it gone is a act of control so that we only can reference things to photos and how photos can be manipulated with text to convey something different,  Or Earth is completely intact its just interaction that people will lose because surveillance changed everything.  Government uses these bubbles as a way of the ultimate surveillance cupped with the notion that what’s linking humans together is this web that is created by the government, controlled by the government, for the government so that they can shape and control behavior. 

How does the relationship change to surveillance and being surveyed if a person knows that this will be the only way to communicate in the future, by past photos, and what people will do to shape what they look like and who they are to reflect a new person.