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Interesting piece on Empire and Surveillance under Obama from Gaston Gordillo
Reblogged from Space and Politics: “The confirmation that everything we write, say, or do electronically is being “recorded” and stored in giant databases indicates that the aggressive expansiveness of...
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On Trevor Paglen and Surveillance and Derek Gregory’s take on it
Reblogged from Geographical Imaginations. I invite anyone thinking about the future impact of the recent Snowden NSA leak to both read Trevor Paglen’s essay in Guernica on the “terror state” and the...
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Looking at “Top Secret America” as the “Empire of Secrets”
When The Daily Show interim host John Oliver (on his opening night) said that “No spy should have that big a tell”, evoking probably the worst tell in history displayed by Director of National...
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Intervention –‘PRISM and the Individualization of Discipline and Security’
Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:by Seth Schindler, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin In this intervention I argue that we are witnessing the emergence of an individualized mode of discipline...
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The history of government surveillance in the U.S.: From the dragnet to Prism
The history of government surveillance in the U.S.: From the dragnet to Prism Reblogging this short yet insightful piece from Kathleen Battles blog post at University of Minnesota Press...
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Gaston Gordillo’s “The All-Seeing God”: Analyzing the Total Information...
This is another great piece by Gaston Gordillo at Space and Politics. This is an excerpt, that I find particularly compelling . But total spatial awareness is, needless to say, a utopian and...
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“Collect it all”
Originally posted on Open Geography:Glenn Greenwald this morning identifies what he calls the “crux” of the NSA surveillance revelations: the desire to “collect it all.” What this means is that instead...
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Beware for Dataveillance While Driving In and Out American Cities!
As I’m soon about to drive down to the US, today’s post relates to the messy surveillance powers of the US national security governmental regime (read here for explanations on this neologism) that...
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Great post from “Mapping Security” blog on all things security and the sheer...
This is a great post from James Alexander at a new blog, Mapping Security. The critique of today’s data-mining operations and the context of surveillance activities is spot on: this new logic of...
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Escaping Surveillance Realism
I stumbled this interesting small piece on surveillance after Snowden (reporting a LSE conference) by Lina Dencik at JOMEC (Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies). It asks us to...
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