How conscious are the efforts to frame issues like 9-11 in terms of capture and control? Also consider the use of technology for political means - what is the intention of the user and why?
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Are the trends of nationwide surveillance sustainable, will there be reflexivity? How will people come to terms with it?
Why do you think it matters whether the control efforts are intentional?
ReplyDeleteI don't think the Bush admin framed 9/11 in terms of capture and control; Andrevich is framing what the Bush admin did in terms of capture and control.
On the intentionality of political actors--
On the one hand, some clearly are intentional-- passages of laws like the DMCA which (I think; I hope I'm not confusing this one another law) require the inclusion of access points/possibilities (chips?) in computers.
Total Information Awareness was a specific DARPA project--it was cancelled soon, though its spirit/traces live on.
Nationwide surveillance--sure they're sustainable, because they are distributed (peer surveillance, cell phones, google collecting clickstream information). What is also interesting is the emergence of ways of dealing with the massive amounts of information--we are just seeing the early components of that.
Also, I think the readings for tomorrow (particularly the piece by Jared Cohen on deradicalization) suggest an explicit governmental policy.
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