unter anderem mit Artikeln von

• Gary Marx and Valerie Steeves – ‘From the Beginning: Children as Subjects and Agents of Surveillance’
• Angie C Henderson, Sandra M Harmon and Jeffrey Houser – ‘A New State of Surveillance? An Application of Michel Foucault to Modern Motherhood’
• Anna Sparrman and Anne-Li Lindgren – ‘Visual documentation as a normalizing practice: a new discourse of visibility in preschool’
• Micheal Gallagher – ‘Are schools panoptic?’
• Mike McCahill and Rachel Finn – ‘The Social impact of Surveillance in Three UK Schools: Angels, Devils and Teen Mums’
• Ian McIntosh, Samantha Punch, Nika Dorrer and Ruth Emond – ‘”You don’t have to be watched to make your toast”: Surveillance and Food Practices within Residential Care’
• Lynne Wrennall – ‘Surveillance and Child Protection: De-mystifying the Trojan Horse’
• Craig Osmond – ‘Anti-social behaviour and its surveillant inter-assemblage’
• Tonya Rooney – ‘Trusting Children: How do surveillance technologies alter a child’s experience of trust, risk and responsibility?’

Vol 7, No 2 (2010) Surveillance, Performance and New Media Art
edited by John McGrath and Bob Sweeny

The relationship between the visual arts and surveillance has been explored through large scale exhibitions (CTRL:Space, ZKM), and texts such as Loving Big Brother (McGrath, 2004) have introduced questions of performance and performativity into the surveillance debate. However, as the technological possibilities available to artists grow, and the social impact of surveillance is increasingly recognized, there is a need for a thorough examination of the uses of surveillance in the visual arts, particularly in the genres of new media and performance art, where issues regarding technological engagement and embodiment come to the fore. This special issue of Surveillance & Society presents papers and works that examine the complexities of surveillance in new media and performance art. Several of the pieces are accompanied by further photogrpahic and video material.

Contents

• Editorial – John McGrath / Robert Sweeny
• Robert Ladislas Derr – Artist, Robert Ladislas Derr uses die rolls and cameras to map his walk through cities worldwide
• Robert Spahr – Recent Thoughts on Panoptic Cruft (fragments) -
• Paola Barreto Leblanc – From Closed-Circuit Television to the Open Network of Live Cinema -
• Jordan Crandall – HOMEFRONT
• Renata Moreira Marquez / Wellington Cançado Coelho – Myopia Index / Global Safari
• Raul Gschrey – Contemporary Closed Circuits – Subversive Dialogues. Artistic Strategies against Surveillance
• A Trialogue on Interventions in Surveillance Space: Seda Gürses in conversation with Michelle Teran and Manu Luksch
• Andrea Mubi Brighenti – Artveillance: At the Crossroad of Art and Surveillance

EFF UNVEILED RESULTS FROM THE “PANOPTICLICK” BROWSER
PRIVACY PROJECT, which demonstrated that more than
8 in 10 people use browsers with unique, trackable
signatures. Having a distinct browser signature means your
individual movements on the web may be easier to track,
and several companies are already selling products that
claim to use browser fingerprinting to help websites
identify users and their online activities.

Whistleblower Mark Klein tells the story of the illegal government spying apparatus installed at an AT&T office by the National Security Agency, and his battle to bring it to light and protect Americans’ 4th Amendment rights.

Threats of terrorism, natural disaster, identity theft, job loss, illegal immigration, and even biblical apocalypse—all are perils that trigger alarm in people today. Although there may be a factual basis for many of these fears, they do not simply represent objective conditions. Feelings of insecurity are instilled by politicians and the media, and sustained by urban fortification, technological surveillance, and economic vulnerability.

Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity fuses advanced theoretical accounts of state power and neoliberalism with original research from the social settings in which insecurity dynamics play out in the new century. Torin Monahan explores the counterterrorism-themed show 24, Rapture fiction, traffic control centers, security conferences, public housing, and gated communities, and examines how each manifests complex relationships of inequality, insecurity, and surveillance. Alleviating insecurity requires that we confront its mythic dimensions, the politics inherent in new configurations of security provision, and the structural obstacles to achieving equality in societies.

Hier gibt es mehr Infos zum Buch und zum Autor.

“Tatsächlich ist es wohl Ihre Geschichte, die erklärt, warum Sie nicht so enthusiastisch über einen seine Bürger ausspionierenden Staat sind (zum wiederholten Male). So wie es der britische Akademiker und Journalist Timothy Garton Ash – der selbst eine Stasi Akte hatte und darüber in seinem großartigen Buch ["Die Akte Romeo", Anm.) geschrieben hat – aufgezeigt hat: “Precisely because German lawmakers and judges know what it was like to live in a Stasi state, and before that in a Nazi one, they have guarded these things [privacy] more jealously than we, the British, who have taken them for granted. You value health most when you have been sick”.”

Information ist nutzlos, wenn sie nicht gefunden wird. Es ist kein Zufall, dass eine Suchmaschine wie Google zu einem der bedeutendsten Unternehmen des neuen Jahrhunderts werden konnte. Diese Maschinen bieten aber nicht nur praktische Hilfe in der Informationsflut. Im scheinbar neutralen Code dieser kognitiven Technologien steckt immer auch eine folgenreiche politische Philosophie

Der  Link zum Buch und zur Konferenz.

Buchvorstellung am Freitag, 5. Februar in Berlin @ b_books, Luebbener Straße 14, 10997 Berlin, um 21 Uhr.