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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 | ||
+ | * 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 visualization | ||
+ | ==== 4. COUNTER-FORCES ==== | ||
- | ==== Translucent Futures ==== | + | Hacking Belgian biometric passports: http:// |
+ | German Work Group on Data Retention: http:// | ||
- | === Activist groups | + | ==== 5. CRITICAL THEORY ==== |
+ | ==== 6. CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS ==== | ||
+ | Resources: | ||
+ | * Mainly American: http:// | ||
+ | * Mainly American: http:// | ||
+ | * Polish cinema: http:// | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | Movie listing: | ||
+ | * Gattaca | ||
+ | * Enemy of the State | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | Man and its relentless need to self-destroy: | ||
+ | * Matrix: interrogation scene: man is like a virus/ | ||
+ | * Terminator 2: scene with two fighting children and toy guns: we're never gonna make it, are we? | ||
+ | * i,Robot: Viki's motivation to initiate a rise of the robots | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | Machines taking over: | ||
+ | * Matrix | ||
+ | * Terminator 2 | ||
+ | * i,Robot | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | Rationalizing society/ | ||
+ | * i,Robot | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | Privatization of law enforcement/ | ||
+ | * RoboCop: corporate corruption, critique on Reaganism, "Good business is where you find it" | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | Dystopian environments | ||
+ | * i,Robot: high production value, CGI, cliché depiction (high rise, civilian protest etc.) | ||
+ | * Children of Men: more organic environments, | ||
+ | ==== 7. SOCIOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGY ==== | ||
+ | ===== II. Resources ===== | ||
- | == Bakelblog.com | + | ==== Newsletters ==== |
+ | * Statewatch | ||
+ | * EDRI-gram | ||
+ | * CRYPTO-GRAM | ||
- | "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, | + | ===== III. Network ===== |
- | [...] | + | ===== IV. Notebook ===== |
- | I've borrowed the title " | + | * Hardware hacking |
+ | * A government having knowledge about its citizens | ||
- | http:// | + | ===== V. Meeting reports ===== |
+ | * July 05, 2007: FoAM, Brussels | ||
+ | * February 01, 2008: The Hub Brussels | ||
+ | * April 25, 2008: Nadine, Saint-Erme | ||
+ | * June 18, 2008: FoAM, Brussels | ||
+ | * July 07, 2008: FoAM, Brussels | ||
+ | * July 10, 2008: The Hub Brussels Co-creation meeting | ||
+ | * July 13, 2008: Margo De Koster (VUB/UCL), FoAM | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | -------------------------------------------------- | ||
- | === Activist art === | + | === Total Information Awareness |
+ | |||
+ | == TIA continuation == | ||
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+ | http:// | ||
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=== Police state === | === Police state === | ||
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=== Totalitarian state === | === Totalitarian state === | ||
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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, | 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, | ||
- | Totalitarianism is often distinguished from __dictatorship, despotism, or tyranny__ | + | Totalitarianism is often distinguished from **dictatorship, despotism, or tyranny** |
- | 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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+ | 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, | ||
— Encyclopaedia Britannica | — Encyclopaedia Britannica | ||
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Download the entire book for free at http:// | Download the entire book for free at http:// | ||
+ | === Activist groups === | ||
+ | == 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, | ||
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+ | I've borrowed the title " | ||
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+ | === Activist art === | ||
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+ | == Hasan M. Elahi == | ||
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+ | **// | ||
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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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=== Related nodes === | === Related nodes === | ||
- | * [[Transparent | + | * [[Transparent |
+ | * [[assassination_politics]] | ||
+ | * [[the war on terror is bogus]] |