Surveillance Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/surveillance/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:19:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Surveillance Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/surveillance/ 32 32 Face Surveillance Was Always Flawed https://www.publicbooks.org/face-surveillance-was-always-flawed/ Tue, 30 Nov 2021 16:00:19 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=46467 The mugshot was invented in the 1880s. A century later, face surveillance has gone digital but remains as flawed as ever.

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]]> Prison Tech Comes Home https://www.publicbooks.org/prison-tech-comes-home/ Wed, 18 Aug 2021 15:00:10 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=44831 Landlords’, bosses’ and schools’ intrusion of surveillance technologies into the home extends the carceral state into domestic space.

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]]> “They Don’t See Their Work as Surveillance”: Jennifer Pan on Chinese Welfare and Society https://www.publicbooks.org/they-dont-see-their-work-as-surveillance-jennifer-pan-on-chinese-welfare-and-society/ Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:00:50 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=44046 “It’s like ‘The Minority Report,’ only without psychics.”[none-for-homepage]

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]]> “Create a Different Language”: Behrouz Boochani & Omid Tofighian https://www.publicbooks.org/create-a-different-language-behrouz-boochani-omid-tofighian/ Wed, 14 Apr 2021 15:00:54 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=42456 “Just do something. Just do something. Just a very small thing. I’m not an ideological person, really.”[none-for-homepage]

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]]> Political Life in the Age of Catastrophe https://www.publicbooks.org/political-life-in-the-age-of-catastrophe/ Tue, 06 Oct 2020 15:00:30 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=38679 Thanks to surveillance, political violence, and AI, we no longer have the luxury of humanist utopias to plan for the future.

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]]> The Dark Matter of Digital Health https://www.publicbooks.org/the-dark-matter-of-digital-health/ Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:00:18 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=35305 Digital health is solidifying the divide between those whose health is valued and those whose health is ignored.

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]]> Facial Recognition Is Only the Beginning https://www.publicbooks.org/facial-recognition-is-only-the-beginning/ Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:00:02 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=33473 Does the relationship between power and AI mean that all people will be monitored all the time?

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]]> Bearing Risks and Being Watched https://www.publicbooks.org/bearing-risks-and-being-watched/ Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:00:05 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=26599 If two features define contemporary capitalism, they are first the tendency of each individual to increasingly bear alone the risks associated with living in a ...

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]]> Can We Stop Both Crime and Incarceration? https://www.publicbooks.org/can-we-stop-both-crime-and-incarceration/ Fri, 16 Nov 2018 16:00:56 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=24875 Everything you have been told about the American criminal justice system is wrong. Or at least not completely accurate. In our current moment of political polarization ...

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]]> “What Invisibility Looks Like” https://www.publicbooks.org/showing-what-invisibility-looks-like/ Mon, 17 Sep 2018 15:00:30 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=23480 Richard S. Leghorn, the Pentagon official who coined the phrase “Information Age,” in 1960, never thought it would catch on. More than half a century later, no ...

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