Under this category, I will post links to scholarship and articles grappling with surveillance theories and their implications for our contemporary society.

You are more than welcome to browse through our CofC library catalog to research scholarship on your selected artistic work in addition to the theoretical texts on surveillance.

Library Guide for German Studies at the College of Charleston

German Studies Resource Guide from Duke University.

German Studies Resource Guide from the Olin Library at Washington University in St. Louis. They have a focus on 20th and 21st Century German and Austria literature, film, and theatre.

Peer-Reviewed Journals:
Surveillance & Society

Surveillance Studies Network is a Website that discusses and introduces recent scholarship and activities of the field

Special issue from the German Studies Review on Surveillance & German Studies.
German Studies Review

Special issue on Surveillance & German literature and film by the peer-reviewed journal Seminar – A Journal of Germanic Studies: Seminar

The Surveillance Studies Reader is a great start to get a first overview of the different topics relating to Surveillance
The Surveillance Studies Reader

If you are more interested in the intersection of philosophy and technology, this scholarly journal might be a great way to start your discussion:Journal Philosophy & Technology

Journalistic articles:
What does the Panopticon mean in the Age of Digital Surveillance?

Surveillance Studies Centers in North America:
Surveillance Studies Center at Queen’s University in Canada
Surveillance Studies Research Center at the University of Kansas

Interdisciplinary Privacy Research Center in Germany:
University of Passau

Art and Surveillance:
Trevor Paglen on the “Invisible Images of Surveillance”
Hasan Elani’s TED Talk on FBI, here I am!
Ctrl [Space] the exhibtion at the ZKM in Karlsruhe

Theatre and Surveillance:
The Plurality of Privacy: 5 Minute Plays