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+ | ====== TRANSLUCENT FUTURES ====== | ||
+ | ===== I. RESEARCH TOPICS ===== | ||
+ | ==== 1. IDEOLOGIES & DOCTRINES === | ||
+ | * Anarchism | ||
+ | * Civil rights | ||
+ | * Liberalism | ||
+ | * Libertarianism | ||
+ | * Open society | ||
+ | * Panopticon | ||
+ | * Police state | ||
+ | * Privacy | ||
+ | * Secrecy | ||
+ | * Shock doctrine | ||
+ | * Totalitarianism | ||
+ | * Transparancy & accountability | ||
+ | ==== 2. PROGRAMS & PRACTICES ==== | ||
+ | Data retention | ||
+ | === Employee surveillance === | ||
+ | === Insurance policies === | ||
+ | === Pay/get paid to give up privacy === | ||
+ | === Security privatization === | ||
+ | === Target marketing === | ||
+ | === Total Information Awareness === | ||
+ | ==== 3. TECHNOLOGIES ==== | ||
+ | === Audiovisual surveillance === | ||
+ | === Biometrics === | ||
+ | === Browser histories === | ||
+ | === Crowd control === | ||
+ | === Data mining === | ||
+ | === Databases === | ||
+ | === Data mining === | ||
+ | === Encryption === | ||
+ | === High resolution photography === | ||
+ | === Identity documents === | ||
+ | === Network-centric warfare === | ||
+ | === Networks === | ||
+ | === Non-lethal weapons === | ||
+ | === Police militarization === | ||
+ | === Radio-frequency identification === | ||
+ | === Web-based geographic visualisation === | ||
+ | ==== 4. COUNTER-FORCES ==== | ||
+ | ==== 5. CRITICAL THEORY ==== | ||
+ | ==== 6. CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS ==== | ||
+ | Movie listing: | ||
+ | Gattaca | ||
+ | Enemy of the State | ||
+ | ==== 7. SOCIOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGY ==== | ||
+ | ===== II. Resources ===== | ||
+ | ===== III. Network ===== | ||
+ | ===== IV. Writing ===== | ||
+ | ===== V. Meeting reports ===== | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | -------------------------------------------------- | ||
- | ==== Translucent Futures | + | === Total Information Awareness |
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+ | == TIA continuation == | ||
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+ | === Police state === | ||
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+ | == Amateur terror fighters to report photographers in Colorado == | ||
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+ | == U.S. defense contractors help to build a high-tech police state in Shenzen, China == | ||
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+ | "The Communist Party chose Chenzen — thanks to its location close to Hong Kong's port — to be China' | ||
+ | [...] | ||
+ | Over the past two years, some 200,000 surveillance cameras have been installed throughout the city. Many are in public spaces, disguised as lampposts. The closed-circuit TV cameras will soon be connected to a single, nationwide network, an all-seeing system that will be capable of tracking and identifying anyone who comes within its range — a project driven in part by U.S. technology and investment. Over the next three years, Chinese security executives predict they will install as many as 2 million CCTVs in Shenzhen, which would make it the most watched city in the world. (Security-crazy London boasts only half a million surveillance cameras.) | ||
+ | The security cameras are just one part of a much broader high-tech surveillance and censorship program known in China as " | ||
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+ | === Totalitarian state === | ||
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+ | == Definition and differences with dictatorial and police states == | ||
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+ | "A form of government that theoretically permits no individual freedom and that seeks to subordinate all aspects of the individual’s life to the authority of the government. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini coined the term totalitario in the early 1920s to describe the new fascist state of Italy, which he further described as: “All within the state, none outside the state, none against the state.” By the beginning of World War II, “totalitarian” had become synonymous with absolute and oppressive single-party government. | ||
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+ | In the broadest sense, totalitarianism is characterized by strong central rule that attempts to control and direct all aspects of individual life through coercion and repression. Examples of such centralized totalitarian rule include the Maurya dynasty of India (c. 321–c. 185 bc), the Ch’in dynasty of China (221–206 bc), and the reign of Zulu chief Shaka (c. 1816–28). The totalitarian states of Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler (1933–45) and the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin (1924–53) were the first examples of decentralized or popular totalitarianism, | ||
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+ | Totalitarianism is often distinguished from **dictatorship, | ||
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+ | Police operations within a totalitarian state often appear similar to those within a **police state**, but one important difference distinguishes them. In a police state the police operate according to known, consistent procedures. In a totalitarian state the police operate without the constraints of laws and regulations. Their actions are unpredictable and directed by the whim of their rulers. Under Hitler and Stalin uncertainty was interwoven into the affairs of the state. The German constitution of the Weimar Republic was never abrogated under Hitler, but an enabling act passed by the Reichstag in 1933 permitted him to amend the constitution at will, in effect nullifying it. The role of lawmaker became vested in one man. Similarly, Stalin provided a constitution for the Soviet Union in 1936 but never permitted it to become the framework of Soviet law. Instead, he was the final arbiter in the interpretation of Marxism–Leninism–Stalinism and changed his interpretations at will. Neither Hitler nor Stalin permitted change to become predictable, | ||
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+ | — Encyclopaedia Britannica | ||
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+ | === Libertarianism === | ||
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+ | == Peter McWilliams, Ain't nobody' | ||
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+ | "In witty, well-researched pages, McWilliams gives a series of compelling arguments to back up his contention that it's morally wrong to prosecute people for victimless crimes against morality." | ||
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+ | Download the entire book for free at http:// | ||
=== Activist groups === | === Activist groups === | ||
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+ | == Open Rights Group == | ||
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+ | == Bakelblog.com == | ||
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+ | "On this blog, I return frequently to the things I'm most passionate about — especially civil liberties — from a mostly libertarian point of view. That said, I hate doctrinarian thinking, so every once in a while I'll stray from the course and antagonize even my libertarian friends. Of course, my professional affiliations and long-suffering clients notwithstanding, | ||
+ | [...] | ||
+ | I've borrowed the title " | ||
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=== Activist art === | === Activist art === | ||
- | === Police state === | + | == Hasan M. Elahi == |
- | Amateur terror fighters | + | **// |
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+ | "One of the works that received an honorary mention at the Prix Ars Electronica in the Net Vision category is Tracking Transience: The Orwell Project, a collection of photographs with a web based companion that tracks Hasan M. Elahi and his movements in real-time, from the last meal he ate to the last public urinal he visited. Between June and November 2002, Elahi had been the subject of an investigation by the FBI as a possible terrorist suspect. He was at a residency overseas while this was initiated. Upon returning home, the artist spent 6 months frequently meeting with FBI agents who wanted to know every detail of everything, explains Elahi: What was I doing there? Who was I speaking with? What did I see? Where did I sleep? And even down to what I ate and drank. I was eventually cleared and to the relief of my friends, family and co-workers, I am officially no longer considered a terrorist – after a 3 hour long polygraph exam which was repeated 9 times. Tracking Transience uses modern technologies to document every aspect of his life. Inspired by the " | ||
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+ | http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2006/09/one-of-the-work.php | ||
=== Related nodes === | === Related nodes === | ||
- | * [[Transparent | + | * [[Transparent |
+ | * [[assassination_politics]] | ||
+ | * [[the war on terror is bogus]] |