Probing the Surveillant Assemblage
On the dialectics of surveillance practices as processes of social control
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12729686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sean P Hier (0000-0003-4273-0936, University of Victoria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 399-411 |
| Publication date | 2002-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Surveillance & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-7487 • E-ISSN: 1477-7487 |
| Publisher | Surveillance Studies Network (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.24908/ss.v1i3.3347 |
| OpenAlex | W2123740492 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 54 |
| References cited | 9 |
Recent dialogue on the contemporary nature of information and data gathering techniques has incorporated the notion of assemblages to denote an increasing convergence of once discrete systems of surveillance. The rhizomatic expansion of late modern ‘surveillant assemblages’ is purported not only to enable important transformations in the purpose and intention of surveillance practices, but to facilitate a partial democratization of surveillance hierarchies. Seeking to account for the forces and desires which give rise to, and sustain, surveillant assemblages, this paper explicates the workings of a dialectic embedded in many surveillance practices to reveal a polarization effect involving the simultaneous leveling and solidification of hierarchies. Empirical data from the intensification of welfare monitoring are presented to illustrate the dialectics of surveillance practices as processes of social control
Archaeology · Assemblage (archaeology · Control (management · Convergence (economics · Democracy · Democratization · Dialectic · Economic growth · Economics · Epistemology · Geography · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Computer Science · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Media and Politics · Artificial Intelligence
The affective atmospheres of surveillance
Building Capital
Postpanopticum
The New Transparency
Critical Surveillance Studies in the Information Society
Researching Neoliberal and Neocolonial Assemblages in Early Childhood Education
Expectations vs reality
Organization, Surveillance and the Body
Beyond school boundaries
Space, Knowledge and Power
Bentham, Deleuze and Beyond
Post-panoptic pedagogies
Carceral Ambivalence
The Return of Panopticism
Profiling Phorm
Facebook Feeding Frenzy
Surveillance Cameras in Brazil
Web 2.0, Prosumption, and Surveillance
Political Economy and the Australian Government’s CCTV Programme
Killing secrets from Panama to Paradise
Now you’re connected”
Revisiting the synopticon
Counterveillance
Freedom and control in the digital age
Youth Responses to the Surveillance School
The authoritarian surveillant assemblage
Obesity assemblages and surveillance in schools
Sport’s Doping Game
War on Terror, work in progress
A New Algorithmic Identity
Exclusion from Urban Privatised Space
How to define surveillance
Surveillance technologies and the crises of confidence in regulatory agencies
(Con)trolling the Web
Capturing crime, criminals and the public’s imagination
Home is Where the Heart Stopped
The racialized surveillant assemblage
Doing Surveillance Studies
Decentralising Data Collection and Centralising Information in the People’s Republic of China
Mutual Obligation? Regulating by Supervision and Surveillance in Australian Income Support P
Integrating subjects
Police and the Post-9/11 Surveillance Surge
Protesters’ Reactions to Video Surveillance of Demonstrations
CCTV, school surveillance and social control
Blogging the Virtual
Population Objects
An elite hockey player's experiences of video-based coaching
Moving Images Through an Assemblage
Decriminalizing or reassembling schools? Implications of removing police from schools for racial and ethnic disparities in criminal justice system contact
I see her being obesed
Risky (Agri-) Business
The two facets of electronic care surveillance
Does WoW Change Everything
Security Clouds
| Citations per year | 2.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Highly cited | No |