Every Move You Make: Bodies, Surveillance, and Media

Abstract

Focuses on surveillance attending episodes of militarization, warring violence, and internal surveillance that are historically part of a more general biopolitics. Concept of biopolitics; Involvement of the state in the management of a population, understood in terms of the energy and cooperation that could be expected from bodies that work, serve in the army, or, at a minimum, maintain the coherence and positive functioning of the family; Contemporary problem of governance, after 9/11, which has been on dangerous bodies, not only those that constitute threats from the outside but also those on the inside who collaborate with or serve as vehicles for enemies of the state. Revision of the familiar Foucauldian notion of disciplinary power, with the observation that the old forms of power that involved defense of territories is being displaced by an aggressive, outreaching securitization.