In a year when the United States, under Trump, has scrapped their Internet Privacy Law (Lee, 2017), all the while decrying, in an ill-informed manor, wiretapping (MacAskill, 2017); the UK’s Home Secretary, Amber Rudd has called for an equally ill-informed backdoor to WhatApp (Haynes, 2017); and German parents are told to destroy their children’s dolls amid spying fears (Oltermann, 2017), it perhaps seems strange to turn to a book published in 1964 to help understand the world around us. While it is important to recognize that the world is somewhat different to the 1960’s, and that Snowden, in particular, shed a new light on the way in which the war on terror has driven securitization (Lyon, 2015). To really to fully understand the modern surveillance state, it is imperative to examine the ongoing conditions of its birth (Jorden, 2015). Huxley, Orwell, and Foucault classically provide the foundation for much of the historical narratives in surveillance studies (Marx, 2016), but the 1960s provided a political climate that would ensure surveillance and privacy would become deeply embedded in our capitalist society and commercial social media platforms (Dwyer, 2016). Eisenhower had solidified the notion of the military-industrial complex in the minds of a nation through his farewell address in 1961; George Axelrod’s neo-noir Cold War thriller, The Manchurian Candidate, with its brainwashing, false memories and stark politics, hit cinemas a year later, bringing McCarthyism to the silver screen. Then, within a matter of months, the breaking of the Cambridge Five spy ring, and Kim Philby’s defection to the USSR provided a real life Cold War thriller the likes of which Hollywood could only dream. It was against this backdrop, and the extreme right wing politics of Barry Goldwater, which dominated the 1964 Presidential race, that Packard published The Naked Society. So, while the internet and concerns about Google and Facebook’s privacy agreements were a long way from Packard’s reality, the past was not an innocent place, and it is perhaps because of this that Packard’s 1964 book, The Naked Society, reads with more than an air of day-to-day familiarity.

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脱衣服亮着：数字时代的监视与裸社会

在特朗普领导下的美国废除其《互联网隐私法》的一年中（李，2017年），一直在一个消息不灵通的庄园里进行窃听（MacAskill，2017年）；英国内政大臣琥珀·陆克文（Amber Rudd）呼吁在知情的情况下使用WhatApp（Haynes，2017）; 德国父母被告知要在间谍恐惧中销毁孩子们的洋娃娃（Oltermann，2017），转向1964年出版的一本书以帮助了解我们周围的世界似乎很奇怪。重要的是要认识到世界与1960年代有所不同，尤其是斯诺登，为反恐战争推动了证券化的方式提供了新的认识（里昂，2015年）。为了真正全面了解现代监视状态，必须检查其诞生的持续条件（Jorden，2015年）。赫x黎 奥威尔（Orwell）和福柯（Foucault）经典地为监视研究中的许多历史叙述奠定了基础（Marx，2016），但是1960年代提供了一种政治氛围，可以确保监视和隐私将深入地嵌入我们的资本主义社会和商业社交媒体平台中（ Dwyer，2016年）。艾森豪威尔（Eisenhower）在1961年的告别演说中巩固了一个国家心目中的军工联合体概念；乔治·阿克塞尔罗德（George Axelrod）的新黑人冷战惊悚片《满族候选人》（Manchurian Candidate）洗脑，虚假的回忆和鲜明的政治，一年后在电影院上映，使麦卡锡主义走上了银幕。然后，在短短几个月内，剑桥五号间谍环的破裂，金·菲尔比（Kim Philby）对苏联的叛逃提供了现实生活中的冷战惊悚片，好莱坞只能梦dream以求。正是在这样的背景下，Packard出版了《赤裸的社会》，而在1964年总统大选中占主导地位的极右翼政治巴里·戈德沃特（Barry Goldwater）。因此，尽管互联网以及对Google和Facebook的隐私协议的担忧距离Packard的现实还有很长一段路要走，但过去并不是一个无辜的地方，也许正是因为这个原因，Packard 1964年出版的《赤裸社会》一书读得不止于此。日常熟悉的气氛。