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 ===== I. RESEARCH TOPICS =====
 ==== 1. IDEOLOGIES & DOCTRINES ===
-=== Anarchism ===
+  * Anarchism
-=== Civil rights ===
+  * Civil rights
-=== Liberalism ===
+  * Liberalism
-=== Libertarianism ===
+  * Libertarianism
-=== Open society ===
+  * Open society
-=== Panopticon ===
+  * Panopticon
-=== Police state ===
+  * Police state
-=== Privacy ===
+  * Privacy
-=== Secrecy ===
+  * Secrecy
-=== Shock doctrine ===
+  * Shock doctrine
-=== Totalitarianism ===
+  * Totalitarianism
-=== Transparancy & accountability ===
+  * Transparancy & accountability
 ==== 2. PROGRAMS & PRACTICES ====
-=== Employee surveillance ===
+  * Data retention
-=== Insurance policies ===
+  * Employee surveillance
-=== Pay/get paid to give up privacy ===
+  * Insurance policies
-=== Security privatization ===
+  * Pay/get paid to give up privacy
-=== Target marketing ===
+  * Security privatization
-=== Total Information Awareness ===
+  * Target marketing
+  * Total Information Awareness
+  * Virtuele slotgracht/nodale controle (Netherlands)
 ==== 3. TECHNOLOGIES ====
-=== Audiovisual surveillance ===
+  * Audiovisual surveillance
-=== Biometrics ===
+  * Biometrics
-=== Browser histories ===
+  * Crowd control
-=== Crowd control ===
+  * Data mining
-=== Data mining ===
+  * Databases
-=== Databases ===
+  * Data mining
-=== Data mining ===
+  * Encryption
-=== Encryption ===
+  * High resolution photography
-=== High resolution photography ===
+  * Identity documents
-=== Identity documents ===
+  * Network-centric warfare
-=== Network-centric warfare ===
+  * Networks
-=== Networks ===
+  * Non-lethal weapons
-=== Non-lethal weapons ===
+  * Police militarization
-=== Police militarization ===
+  * Radio-frequency identification
-=== Radio-frequency identification ===
+  * Web-based geographic visualization
-=== Web-based geographic visualisation ===
 ==== 4. COUNTER-FORCES ====
+Hacking Belgian biometric passports: http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/crypto/passport/index_ne.html\\
+German Work Group on Data Retention: http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/lang,en/
 ==== 5. CRITICAL THEORY ====
 ==== 6. CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS ====
+Resources:
+  * Mainly American: http://snarkerati.com/movie-news/the-top-50-dystopian-movies-of-all-time/
+  * Mainly American: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_films
+  * Polish cinema: http://www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca/mazi042.htm
+\\
+Movie listing:
+  * Gattaca
+  * Enemy of the State
+\\
+Man and its relentless need to self-destroy:
+  * Matrix: interrogation scene: man is like a virus/stench
+  * 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/laws:
+  * i,Robot
+\\
+Privatization of law enforcement/military:
+  * 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, documentary film style
 ==== 7. SOCIOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGY ====
 ===== II. Resources =====
+==== Newsletters ====
+  * Statewatch
+  * EDRI-gram
+  * CRYPTO-GRAM
 ===== 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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