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    IMG MGMT: The Nine Eyes of Google Street View - a very thought-provoking article on Google Street View’s cameras casting an unseeing gaze on the everyday, revealing a whole lot more than just privacy concerns, even creating a kind of “noisy amateur aesthetic” for the author. This very way of recording our world, this tension between an automated camera and a human who seeks meaning, reflects our modern experience. As social beings we want to matter and we want to matter to someone, we want to count and be counted, but loneliness and anonymity are more often our plight. The detached gaze of the automated camera can lead to a sense that we are observed simultaneously by everyone and by no one.

    IMG MGMT: The Nine Eyes of Google Street View - a very thought-provoking article on Google Street View’s cameras casting an unseeing gaze on the everyday, revealing a whole lot more than just privacy concerns, even creating a kind of “noisy amateur aesthetic” for the author.

    This very way of recording our world, this tension between an automated camera and a human who seeks meaning, reflects our modern experience. As social beings we want to matter and we want to matter to someone, we want to count and be counted, but loneliness and anonymity are more often our plight.

    The detached gaze of the automated camera can lead to a sense that we are observed simultaneously by everyone and by no one.