Fluid Surveillance

Today, every detail of our lives is monitored and recorded more closely than ever before; and the surveilled often voluntarily cooperate with the monitors. In all major cities, from London to New York, from New Delhi to Istanbul, cameras have become a familiar, unobjectionable part of public spaces. If you are going to board a plane, your body will be scanned from end to end and subjected to biometric control; Search engines and credit card readers record all our habits, interests and preferences and silently put them into the service of the market. In today's fluid modern world, flexibility and mobility determine the functioning of our daily lives. While crossing national borders has become an ordinary activity, social media is at everyone's disposal at all times. Today's citizens, workers, and consumers are constantly on the move and often live without certainty and boundaries. However, in this world where space is far from fixed and time is unlimited, we have no movement that is not recorded. By adapting to this fluid nature of modern life, surveillance is spreading faster than ever before, leaving no area beyond its reach.
In Liquid Surveillance, the great theorist Zygmunt Bauman, who reveals the liquid modern world in every detail, and David Lyon, one of the world's leading analysts on surveillance and control mechanisms, come together and discuss very vital problems together. Is a dark future waiting for us where every moment of ours is watched? Is there no more room for freedom and hope? How can we claim our responsibility of being human, which we have lost in the hustle and bustle of daily life?

Two great thinkers, who examine these questions that concern the general reader as well as academic circles, within the framework of power, technology and morality, tell us what it means to be watched and monitored today.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 176

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Details Publications

First Printing Year: 2013

Number of Pages: 176

Language Turkish