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Lecture
WiSe 18/19: Ringvorlesung: Surveillance and Social Order
Markus Kienscherf, Lora Anne Viola
Comments
Surveillance and Social Order: Visibility, Invisibility, and the Blurring of Boundaries
Surveillance—broadly understood as a set of processes and practices for the collection, analysis, and application of information—has become a defining characteristic of late modernity. Although surveillance has ancient roots, new information technologies and the advent of big data have created conditions for the pervasive, penetrating, and highly consequential role of surveillance in the everyday lives of individuals, firms, and governments. New technologies allow watching to happen in greater depth, breadth, and immediacy. Technology, however, is only a precondition for our transformation into a new surveillance society. A wide range of social, political, cultural, and economic factors have made surveillance practices appear useful and even necessary. To understand surveillance, we need to consider the modes of governance that mobilize surveillance for the purposes of controlling and steering the process of social ordering. In particular, one of the central effects of surveillance is the blurring of boundaries. Processes and practices of surveillance are blurring traditional boundaries between the private and the public spheres, between private and public authorities, between the state and the corporation, between the police and the military, between logics of security and logics of profit, between the scrutinized and the scrutinizers. In a more general sense, surveillance blurs the line between the visible and the invisible, revealing some things as transparent and keeping others in utter obscurity.
This lecture series interrogates the ways in which surveillance processes and practices are transformative of social order. In this spirit, we invite speakers to consider topics such as: the intersection of media and surveillance, capitalism and surveillance, surveillance in popular culture, the surveillance society as treated in historical or contemporary literature, surveillance as a mode of governance, surveillance and security, histories of surveillance, and many others.
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15 Class schedule
Additional appointments
Fri, 2018-11-16 17:00 - 19:00
Comments:
David Lyon (Queen's University): Trust and Transparency in Today's Surveillance Culture
Location:
Hs 1a Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Regular appointments
Wed, 2018-10-17 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2018-10-24 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2018-10-31 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2018-11-07 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2018-11-14 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2018-11-21 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2018-11-28 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2018-12-05 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2018-12-12 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2019-01-09 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2019-01-16 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2019-01-23 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2019-01-30 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2019-02-06 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2019-02-13 18:00 - 20:00
Comments:
Jean-Michel Turcotte (JFK-I): Securing and Understanding Prisoners of War, 1940 - 1953: US Policy and the Surveillance of Enemy Captives from World War II to the Korean War