Description
Book SynopsisVideo surveillance, public records, fingerprints, hidden microphones, RFID chips: in contemporary societies the intrusive techniques of surveillance used in daily life have increased dramatically.
Trade Review"A tightly packed and critical history of the global rise of security, surveillance and suspicion."
David Lyon, Queens University "This book cuts through the clutter of post-9/11 political rhetoric to reveal the contours of a global capitalist surveillance economy in which the logics of policing and marketing converge. Mattelart counters the urgent injunction to ignore history in the face of the contemporary threat (because 'everything has changed') by exploring the long marriage between capitalism and surveillance. The book shows us how the mobilization of the promise of security has been used to undermine freedom, and suggests what it might mean to think the two together. This is an indispensable work that explores the sometimes invisible atmosphere in which we move: that of ubiquitous surveillance, tracking, and targeting - and the interests which these serve."
Mark Andrejevic, University of Iowa
Table of ContentsIntroduction
I Disciplining / Managing
1 - Surveillance: delinquency as a political observatory
2 - Punishing: the apprehended multitude
3 - Managing Mass Society: the lessons of total war
II Hegemonizing / Pacifying
4 - The Cold War and the religion of national security
5 - "Civic action" or the reappropriation of the national security doctrine
6 - Counterinsurgency, the crossroads of expeditionary forces
7 - The internationalisation of torture
III Securitizing / Insecuritizing
8 - The new domestic order
9 - War without end: the techno-security paradigm
10 - The European Police Area
11 - The traceability of bodies and goods
Epilogue
