De la sousveillance

Abstract

We can no longer use the terms “Surveillance⠀? and “Control�, proposed by Foucault and Deleuze, as if nothing had changed. The “global watch� currently taking shape is no longer organized on the model of visibility, but on the model of computability. From a world where behaviors can be seen but not verified, we are evolving into a world of data which can be verified but not pictured. This major change pushes us to propose the term “Underveillance� in order to refer to a radically new mode of governmentality. Copyright 2010 Assoc. Multitudes. All rights reserved.