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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 ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Hacking Belgian biometric passports: http:// | ||
+ | German Work Group on Data Retention: http:// | ||
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+ | ==== 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 ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Newsletters ==== | ||
+ | * Statewatch | ||
+ | * EDRI-gram | ||
+ | * CRYPTO-GRAM | ||
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+ | ===== III. Network ===== | ||
+ | ===== IV. Notebook ===== | ||
+ | * Hardware hacking as resistance to consumer culture | ||
+ | * A government having knowledge about its citizens is not quite the same as having control over its citizens (cf. EMD bracelet) | ||
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+ | ===== 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 | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
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=== Total Information Awareness === | === Total Information Awareness === | ||
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=== Activist groups === | === Activist groups === | ||
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+ | == Open Rights Group == | ||
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+ | http:// | ||
== Bakelblog.com == | == Bakelblog.com == | ||
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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 " | "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]] |