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 | Dave Berg's continual invocation of surveillance, combined with his self-placement as a subject of surveillance, is in fact a movement away from Modernist models of critique in which the critic presumes a peripheral "bird's eye view" outside of the cultural workings under critique. |
| Berg's representations of himself as surveyor, both on his book covers and as the character Roger Kaputnik (a name Berg jokingly gave to himself as a child growing up in a family with too many children for his mother to always readily remember all of their names), always includes his trademark thick, fl, outdated glasses. |
| Berg's internalization of self-surveillance is coupled with a neurotic subjugation to the influential powers of the gazes put upon him by both government and the neighbor next door (Fig. |
| Dave Berg (108 words) |
| Dave Berg (June 12, 1920-May 17, 2002) was a cartoonist for Mad Magazine. |
| Berg was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended the Cooper Union Art School. |
| Berg went to work for Mad in 1956. |
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