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| ===== I. RESEARCH TOPICS ===== | ===== I. RESEARCH TOPICS ===== | ||
| ==== 1. IDEOLOGIES & DOCTRINES === | ==== 1. IDEOLOGIES & DOCTRINES === | ||
| - | === CIVIL RIGHTS === | + | * Anarchism |
| - | === PRIVACY === | + | * Civil rights |
| - | === Transparency | + | * Liberalism |
| - | === Secrecy | + | * Libertarianism |
| - | === Open society | + | * Open society |
| - | === Liberalism | + | * Panopticon |
| - | === Libertarianism | + | * Police state |
| - | === Totalitarianism | + | * Privacy |
| - | === Police state === | + | * Secrecy |
| - | === Shock doctrine | + | * Shock doctrine |
| + | * Totalitarianism | ||
| + | * Transparancy | ||
| + | ==== 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 | ||
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| + | Hacking Belgian biometric passports: http:// | ||
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| + | ==== 5. CRITICAL THEORY | ||
| + | ==== 6. CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS | ||
| + | Resources: | ||
| + | * Mainly American: http:// | ||
| + | * Mainly American: http:// | ||
| + | * Polish cinema: http:// | ||
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| + | Movie listing: | ||
| + | * Gattaca | ||
| + | * Enemy of the State | ||
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| + | 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 | ||
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| + | Machines taking over: | ||
| + | * Matrix | ||
| + | * Terminator 2 | ||
| + | * i,Robot | ||
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| + | Rationalizing society/ | ||
| + | * i,Robot | ||
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| + | Privatization of law enforcement/ | ||
| + | * RoboCop: corporate corruption, critique on Reaganism, "Good business is where you find it" | ||
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| + | 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 ===== | ===== II. Resources ===== | ||
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| + | ==== Newsletters ==== | ||
| + | * Statewatch | ||
| + | * EDRI-gram | ||
| + | * CRYPTO-GRAM | ||
| ===== III. Network ===== | ===== 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) | ||
| - | + | ===== 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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| "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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