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November 25, 2007

The growth of surveillance (the proliferation in its forms, the refinement in its technologies, and the expansion in its use) clearly finds its correlate in popular cultural representation. The sinister character of such monitoring--- the “rise of surveillance society”--- has been a recurrent feature in cinematic representation and street art.

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Gary Sauer-Thompson, surveillance, Hindley Street, Adelaide CBD

In Foucault’s schema the effectiveness of the Panopticon is linked to a whole host of disciplinary interventions, including drills that train the body, regimesthat closely regulate schedules of activity, and swift interventions that punish deviations from the prescribed norm. Such a panoply of regulatory, instructive andcorrective techniques of “normalisation” are simply not present in the surveillance and management of free populations in extra-carceral settings.

Do these apply to the surveillance of CCTV?

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 3:35 PM |