The Electronic Eye

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In this book David Lyon analyses the various contexts of surveillance activity and offers a balanced account of the influence electronic information systems have on the social order today.

Cover 2
Title Page 6
Copyright 7
Contents 8
Preface and Acknowledgements 11
I SITUATING SURVEILLANCE 14
- 1 Introduction: Body, Soul and Credit Card 16
  - Surveillance in Everyday Life 16
  - Surveillance in Modern Society 19
  - The Social Impact of Technology 21
  - Technology and Totalitarianism 24
  - The Problem of Privacy 27
  - Personhood and Postmodernity 30
  - Understanding Surveillance Society 33

Cover 2
Title Page 6
Copyright 7
Contents 8
Preface and Acknowledgements 11
I SITUATING SURVEILLANCE 14
- 1 Introduction: Body, Soul and Credit Card 16
  - Surveillance in Everyday Life 16
  - Surveillance in Modern Society 19
  - The Social Impact of Technology 21
  - Technology and Totalitarianism 24
  - The Problem of Privacy 27
  - Personhood and Postmodernity 30
  - Understanding Surveillance Society 33
- 2 Surveillance in Modern Society 35
  - A Prehistory of Surveillance 35
  - Surveillance and Modernity 37
  - The Military, War and Modern Surveillance 40
  - The Nation-State and Modern Surveillance 42
  - Capitalism and Modern Surveillance 46
  - Surveillance, Modernity and Beyond 50
- 3 New Surveillance Technologies 53
  - From Papermongers to Databanks 53
  - The Difference Technology Makes 55
  - What Do Computers Do? 59
  - New Technology and Surveillance Capacity 64
  - New Technologies: New Surveillance? 66
  - New Surveillance: Evidence and Debate 68
- 4 From Big Brother to the Electronic Panopticon 70
  - The Police State and the Prison 70
  - Orwell’s Dystopia 72
  - The Panopticon from Bentham to Foucault 75
  - Electronic Surveillance: Panoptic Power? 80
  - Evaluating Electronic Panopticism 84
  - Beyond Orwell, Bentham and Foucault 91
- II SURVEILLANCE TRENDS 94
  - 5 The Surveillance State: Keeping Tabs on You 96
    - You and Your Data-Image 96
    - The Surveillance State 98
    - A Political Economy of New Surveillance 101
    - New Technologies and Surveillance Capacity 104
    - From Crib to Coffin: Fine-grained Files 107
    - Managing Health Care Spending: The Ontario Health Card 109
    - Administration, Computers and Beyond 112
  - 6 The Surveillance State: From Tabs to Tags 115
    - Spiderman’s Solution 115
    - Electronic Identification 117
    - Computers that Converse: Record Linkage 120
    - Police Computers: Command and Control 123
    - Computerizing National Security 127
    - State Surveillance, Citizenship and Globalization 129
  - 7 The Transparent Worker 132
    - Chaplin and Chips 132
    - The Watched Workplace 134
    - Taylorism and Technology 137
    - Towards Disorganized Surveillance? 139
    - The Transparent Worker 142
    - Computer-Intensified Surveillance 144
    - Post-Fordism, Disorganized Surveillance and Beyond 146
  - 8 The Targeted Consumer 149
    - Junk Mail Marketing 149
    - Taylorism Transposed? 151
    - The Domestic Threshold 154
    - New Technologies for Surveillance?: Caller ID and Smart Cards 160
    - Data Entrepreneurs and Strategic Information 163
    - Commercial Surveillance Capacities 166
    - Consumerism and Surveillance Theory 168
  - III COUNTER-SURVEILLANCE 172
    - 9 Challenging Surveillance 174
      - The Challenge of and the Challenge to 174
      - The Challenge of Surveillance 177
      - The Challenge to Surveillance: I Privacy Law 183
      - The Challenge to Surveillance: II Social Movements 187
      - Beyond the Watershed 190
    - 10 Privacy, Power, Persons 192
      - Mirages of Modernity? 192
      - Privacy Invaded 193
      - The Public and the Private 195
      - Diminishing Private Space? 197
      - Privacy and Property 200
      - Privacy or Autonomy? 202
      - A Superpanopticon? 203
      - Surveillance and Personhood 205
      - Beyond Privacy 209
    - 11 Against Dystopia, Distance, Division 212
      - Real-Time Dystopia 212
      - Dystopia in Surveillance Theory 214
      - Is Seeing Knowing? 218
      - Confessing, Controlling, Confidence 221
      - From LA to the Other City 224
      - Towards an Alternative 227
    - 12 Beyond Postmodern Paranoia 231
      - Postmodern Paranoids 231
      - Surveillance Society Today 232
      - For the Future 236
    - Notes 239
    - Select Bibliography 271
    - Index 280

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David Lyon: Queen's University, Ontario, Canada

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