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The Affective Infrastructure of Late Liberalism Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University Communication Dissertations Department of Communication 8-7-2018 Privacy in the age of Snowden: The Affective Infrastructure of Late Liberalism. Jason Derby Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/communication_diss Recommended Citation Derby, Jason, "Privacy in the age of Snowden: The Affective Infrastructure of Late Liberalism.." Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2018. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/communication_diss/91 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Communication at ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Communication Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. PRIVACY IN THE AGE OF SNOWDEN: THE AFFECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE OF LATE LIBERALISM. by JASON DERBY Under the Direction of David Cheshier, PhD ABSTRACT In 2013 NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked thousands of documents to journalists from The Washington Post and The Guardian. These leaked documents exposed the inner working of the surveillance industrial complex in the United States. Moreover, these actions created a disruption in the smooth affective order connected to liberalism and broader neo liberal forms of governmentality. This project begins the process of tracking this disruption. INDEX WORDS: Affect, Surveillance, Snowden, Journalism, Political Theory, PRIVACY IN THE AGE OF SNOWDEN: THE AFFECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE OF LATE LIBERALISM. by JASON DERBY A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences Georgia State University 2018 Copyright by Jason Derby 2018 PRIVACY IN THE AGE OF SNOWDEN: THE AFFECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE OF LATE LIBERALISM. by JASON DERBY Committee Chair: David Cheshier Committee: Ben Miller Alessandra Raengo Joshua Reeves Electronic Version Approved: Office of Graduate Studies College of Arts and Sciences Georgia State University August 2018 iv DEDICATION This work is dedicated to William and Dori Wooton. Their love and generosity has sustained my work in more ways than I can count. I also dedicate this work to Bill Wooton who liked smart people. I miss him and his laughter. v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It is no exaggeration to say that this project would never have come together without the many people who have supported me through this process. The content of the project has benefited from the amazing faculty at GSU. In addition to the patient and constant support of my advisor David Cheshier, several of the faculty were amazingly generous with their time and insight specifically Ben Miller, Nate Atkinson, Amelia Arsenault, and Angelo Restivo. Josh Reeves comments about the future of computers has never been far from my thoughts. My conversations and debates with Alessandra Raengo were absolutely amazing and put me on the path to undertaking this project, I will never be able to thank her enough for her input. Additionally, her seminar on Race and Capital was instrumental in forging my intellectual trajectory and was the class that created some of my most treasured relationships. My time at Georgia state has been made remarkable by the friendships I have made and the people that have touched my life. The other students in my cohort have been amazingly helpful and amazing colleagues. Additionally, the students who came before me and showed me the in’s and out’s Stephen Heidt, Scott Tulloch, Andrew and Nicki Barnes, and Mina Ivanova. The number of people supporting me has been astounding. The list is too long for the space I have here but there are certainly some people that I want to specifically name. Several times over the last few years Cutler Edwards and Marilyn Brogan have helped me put the pieces back together after every inevitable collapse. It is no exaggeration to say they have taught me how to be a better person through out all of this. Cutler in particular has shown me how to think in challenging ways. Several friends from Atlanta including Jen Sarret, Hilary King, Isabella Alexander, and Sarah Franzen have provided more support than I can possibly express. The final stages of my project benefited from the detailed feedback and encouragement of my two writing vi partners Matt Lewis and Wendell Marsh. Laurel Ahnert, Emily Kofoed and Lauren Cramer have so often been the inspiration I have needed to get done. These women have done more for me than I will ever be express. Rob Ruth and Cason Lane have been incredibly supportive throughout this entire process. The love and support of my parents Frank and Karen has made so many things possible. They have been my biggest supporters all my life. I am grateful beyond measure for their support. Rebecca Wolniewicz has pushed me and supported from the first day we meet, I will never be able to thank her for all of her kindness and generosity. Finally, Stacy Aldinger came into my life in final stages of my project. Her encouragement and patience are without equal. Simply put, this dissertation would not have gotten done without her. I love you. And I can’t wait to see where we go from here. vii TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .....................................................................................................V 1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................ 1 1.1 Relevant Literature ................................................................................................ 14 1.1.1 Neoliberalism and Affect .......................................................................... 15 1.1.2 Publics and Communication Media.......................................................... 19 1.1.3 Subjects in late liberalism ......................................................................... 24 1.2 Methodology ........................................................................................................... 34 1.3 Chapter Outline ..................................................................................................... 46 2 SECRETS OF INTIMACY ........................................................................................ 48 2.1 Publics, intimate and otherwise ............................................................................. 50 2.2 Eye witness vs. iWitness ......................................................................................... 55 2.3 Who is the journalist now ...................................................................................... 73 2.4 Conclusion .............................................................................................................. 86 3 SOVEREIGN IN NEUTRALITY .............................................................................. 89 3.1 Defining Privacy ..................................................................................................... 93 3.2 Liberal Neutrality .................................................................................................100 3.3 Private Technologies .............................................................................................104 3.4 The Sovereign FCC ...............................................................................................112 3.4.1 Regulating the Internet ............................................................................116 3.5 Conclusion .............................................................................................................127 4 PUBLIC DEBT, PRIVATE OBLIGATION, SECRET SPENDING. ......................130 4.1 Affect and Rationality ...........................................................................................131 viii 4.2 Debt and Risk ........................................................................................................137 4.3 Snowden’s Crisis ...................................................................................................150 4.4 Private Currency ...................................................................................................156 5 CONCLUSION ..........................................................................................................164 BIBLIOGRAPHY .................................................................................................................180 1 1 INTRODUCTION On January 17th 2014, President Obama addressed the United States Department of Justice regarding the role of clandestine intelligence operations in the execution of American foreign policy. In the speech the president positioned himself as a strident defender of the governmental responsibility to engage in intelligence collection activities while simultaneously burdened by the task of defending the long cherished right to privacy. At one point he asserts: We have to make some important decisions about how to protect ourselves and sustain our leadership in the world while upholding the civil liberties and privacy protections our ideals and our Constitution require. We need to do so not only because it is right but because the challenges posed by threats like terrorism and proliferation and cyberattacks are not going away any time soon. They are going to continue to be a major problem. And for our intelligence community to be effective over the long haul, we must maintain the trust of the America people and people around the world.1 A clear element of the speech
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