The Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society

Contents......Page 6
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 9
I: SITUATING SURVEILLANCE......Page 12
Surveillance in Everyday Life......Page 14
Surveillance in Modern Society......Page 17
The Social Impact of Technology......Page 19
Technology and Totalitarianism......Page 22
The Problem of Privacy......Page 25
Personhood and Postmodernity......Page 28
Understanding Surveillance Society......Page 31
A Prehistory of Surveillance......Page 33
Surveillance and Modernity......Page 35
The Military, War and Modern Surveillance......Page 38
The Nation-State and Modern Surveillance......Page 40
Capitalism and Modern Surveillance......Page 44
Surveillance, Modernity and Beyond......Page 48
From Papermongers to Databanks......Page 51
The Difference Technology Makes......Page 53
What Do Computers Do?......Page 57
New Technology and Surveillance Capacity......Page 62
New Technologies: New Surveillance?......Page 64
New Surveillance: Evidence and Debate......Page 66
The Police State and the Prison......Page 68
Orwell's Dystopia......Page 70
The Panopticon from Bentham to Foucault......Page 73
Electronic Surveillance: Panoptic Power?......Page 78
Evaluating Electronic Panopticism......Page 82
Beyond Orwell, Bentham and Foucault......Page 89
II: SURVEILLANCE TRENDS......Page 92
You and Your Data-Image......Page 94
The Surveillance State......Page 96
A Political Economy of New Surveillance......Page 99
New Technologies and Surveillance Capacity......Page 102
From Crib to Coffin: Fine-grained Files......Page 105
Managing Health Care Spending: The Ontario Health Card......Page 107
Administration, Computers and Beyond......Page 110
Spiderman's Solution......Page 113
Electronic Identification......Page 115
Computers that Converse: Record Linkage......Page 118
Police Computers: Command and Control......Page 121
Computerizing National Security......Page 125
State Surveillance, Citizenship and Globalization......Page 127
Chaplin and Chips......Page 130
The Watched Workplace......Page 132
Taylorism and Technology......Page 135
Towards Disorganized Surveillance?......Page 137
The Transparent Worker......Page 140
Computer-Intensified Surveillance......Page 142
Post-Fordism, Disorganized Surveillance and Beyond......Page 144
Junk Mail Marketing......Page 147
Taylorism Transposed?......Page 149
The Domestic Threshold......Page 152
New Technologies for Surveillance?: Caller ID and Smart Cards......Page 158
Data Entrepreneurs and Strategic Information......Page 161
Commercial Surveillance Capacities......Page 164
Consumerism and Surveillance Theory......Page 166
III: COUNTER-SURVEILLANCE......Page 170
The Challenge of and the Challenge to......Page 172
The Challenge of Surveillance......Page 175
The Challenge to Surveillance: I Privacy Law......Page 181
The Challenge to Surveillance: II Social Movements......Page 185
Beyond the Watershed......Page 188
Mirages of Modernity?......Page 190
Privacy Invaded......Page 191
The Public and the Private......Page 193
Diminishing Private Space?......Page 195
Privacy and Property......Page 198
Privacy or Autonomy?......Page 200
A Superpanopticon?......Page 201
Surveillance and Personhood......Page 203
Beyond Privacy......Page 207
Real-Time Dystopia......Page 210
Dystopia in Surveillance Theory......Page 212
Is Seeing Knowing?......Page 216
Confessing, Controlling, Confidence......Page 219
From LA to the Other City......Page 222
Towards an Alternative......Page 225
Postmodern Paranoids......Page 229
Surveillance Society Today......Page 230
For the Future......Page 234
Notes......Page 237
Select Bibliography......Page 269
C......Page 278
L......Page 279
S......Page 280
Z......Page 281