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Introduction

Debating Surveillance in the Age of Security

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, vbajc{at}ssc.upenn.edu

The practice of surveillance under the meta-frame of security is based on acquiring ever more detailed information and parceling out the state territory into different types of enclosures. The state seeks flexibility to follow this information globally and in real time. To be able to act in preemptive ways, the state is reshaping its Weberian bureaucratic structure through internal reorganization, outsourcing, and suprastate security alliances. These developments threaten the relationship between the citizen and the state and raise ethical concerns.

Key Words: surveillance • bureaucratic classification • bureaucratic logic • governmentality of potentialities • corporate security state • Outsider • checkpoint • zone of sovereignty • ethics

American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 50, No. 12, 1567-1591 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0002764207305148


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