GENESIS 6 - Panoptic Governance

‘Cam Era’ – the contemporary urban

Panopticon * Hille Koskela1

 

The major effect of the Panopticon is, in Foucault’s words (1977: 201), ‘to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automate functioning of power’. The emphasised meaning of recognised panoptic principle. The basic nature of the exercise of disciplinary power ‘involves regulation through visibility’ (Hannah, 1997a: 171). ‘Power is exercised through ‘the "eye of power" in the disciplinary gaze’ (Ramazanoglu, 1993: 22). To be able to see offers the basic condition for collecting knowledge, for being ‘in control’

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Surveillance, Children and Childhood - http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/ojs/index.php/journal

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The GLOBAL GRID and YOU

Some basic facts to begin.

Analog and digital communications have almost entirely been a nation-state controlled enterprise. The process is the same for IT.

The Internet itself was created and enabled by the military and academic institutions for the sole purpose of collaboration.

Senators Move To Make ALL U.S. Workers Carry Microchipped ID!

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - There's more talk on Capitol Hill about requiring all U.S. citizens to carry a worker ID card before getting a job. It's part of a major overhaul of immigration policy, and the plan could go before President Obama as soon as this week.

All U.S. citizens would be required to carry an ID cards according to this plan. It's meant to keep companies from hiring illegal immigrants. No matter where you apply for a job, under the plan, you would have to have a card carrying bio-metric information on a microchip. It's like your fingerpints, or a scan of the veins in your hands.

The ID cards would basically prove you are who you say you are, and that you are a legal citizen of the United States. The program is being pushed in the U.S. Senate by Democrat Chuck Schumer (D- New York), and Republican Lindsay Graham (R- South Carolina).

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The Barbershop Diaries, Volume I, Issue 13: Spiritual Bankruptcy and the End of the Big Lie

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Notes on the Day of Last Judgment