Are you normal? What even is normal? https://media.privacyinternational.org/videos/watch/1d0e65b8-4496-4377-91cc-d3ccb4ab23ea This week Gus and Caitlin discuss what it means to be normal, where the concept comes from, and the impact that it has on the design of technological systems like proctoring systems and emotion recognition. Links/Further Reading Normal People by Ian Hacking: ⁠https://www.scribd.com/document/259318963/Hacking-1996-Normal-People⁠, English heritage on the history of eugenics in Britain and Francis Galton: ⁠https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/blue-plaque-stories/eugenics/⁠, The Grammar of Society by Christina Bicchieri: ⁠https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227389527_The_Grammar_of_Society⁠, Extract from Discipline and Punish by Foucault: ⁠https://foucault.info/documents/foucault.disciplineAndPunish.panOpticism/ Mon, 09 Nov 2026 18:04:38 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://media.privacyinternational.org Are you normal? What even is normal? https://media.privacyinternational.org/lazy-static/avatars/5c7454e0-676b-43a0-8933-4867d0c1f2e6.png https://media.privacyinternational.org/videos/watch/1d0e65b8-4496-4377-91cc-d3ccb4ab23ea All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://media.privacyinternational.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.