It was bound to happen. Rumors—and credible reports—had been flashing up here and there for quite some time. Finally it was made official: the Chinese technoscientific corpus has found a …
“I can read your thoughts”…
Zuckerberg and Musk impersonate the “Knights of the Apocalypse”: among other things, they invest in the “interface” between human neurons and machines. But they are, in essence, the advertisers of …
neurobehavioral signals: “health” instead of “defense”
The proposal is fitting for its time: by collecting personal data from various sources, suitable algorithms can make a “psychiatric diagnosis” – enough to identify potential mass killers… In the …
big data: monitoring and shaping behaviors in the 4th industrial revolution
Surveillance has been transformed from an element of governance into governance itself. It is simultaneously government (system) and governability (self-awareness and cooperation, where the prisoner becomes the guardian of himself). …
Foucault in cyberspace: surveillance, sovereignty and embedded censorship
[ Original title: Foucault in Cyberspace, Surveillance, Sovereighty, and Hard-Wired Censors.James Boyle is a professor at Duke Law School, where he teaches courses on intellectual property and the constitution in …
In how many shots did you play today?
There is a serious (to scary) side to the issue. But there is also the more comical one. The fact that only one european and one american city (London and …
Behind the tweets, the hyenas yawn
… The senior Twitter executive with editorial responsibility for the Middle East is also a part-time officer in the British Army’s psychological warfare unit. Gordon MacMillan, who joined the social …
monitoring and discipline in the 4th industrial revolution
The claim of “natural freedom” in the cyberverse may also seem old in our parts; Although his golden fifteen years (in ‘90s and ‘00s) are not so ancient. The fact …
Database States
There is now an epidemic of live facial recognition surveillance in the u.k. The fusion of the police and private companies about the construction of these surveillance networks in public …
snap me as I snap you
The scene could be left without comment if it was not a moment of repression. He is an israeli military cop, she is a palestinian. He is strapped with grenades, …
Shrewd cities
It is not easy to come up against 500,000 cameras and sensors in all public places; even if one wanted to. If the gift of this giga-panopticon is absolute security …
The Invisible Campaign
In our territories, these are completely indifferent matters; what are serious are the political buffooneries and the everyday trivialities. In other societies they have begun to understand the seriousness of …