How the United States spies on us all

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jan 8 01:21:24 PST 1999


John Kawakami wrote:


>The infrastructure for mass surveillance is being built.

Yeah. I only read Foucault's Discipline & Punish* for the first time a year ago, and I was struck by how ahead of things Foucault's version of Bentham was. The panopticon was never built, and that kind of constant scrutiny was technically impossible in the 18C. Now it's here - cameras everwhere, databases everywhere, spies everywhere.

Doug

---- *A book that occasional list contributor Tom Dickens says is as important as Marx's Capital, an unusual position for a self-described classical Marxist to take, and which I'm urging him again to elaborate on.



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