10 novembre 2021
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emilstephensen, « Turn on, tune in, drop out: On the attentional privacy of 17th century Dutch letter-readers », Centre for Privacy Studies, ID : 10.58079/t0ud
The following blog post is a revised version of the essay that Emil Stephensen wrote as student for the 2019 PRIVACY summer school. When Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, visited Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum in 2016, he claimed to have found an iPhone in one of the paintings - more specifically in A Letter Delivered in a Voorhuis (1670) by Pieter de Hooch. This 17th century painting of a woman receiving a letter is one among many representations of epistolarity in Dutch Golden Age art – and there might...