Hey Nils! I have an anecdote that may be interesting to you. My relatives
in China like to say that there are two types of punishment. In the US,
people are punished lightly for crimes but the threat of getting caught and
going through punishment is larger. Of course, I'd like to add that this is
r
Hi Molly,
thank you!
And sorry for the late reply.
I'm specifically interested in the history of (admittedly mainly
western, even european) subjectivity.
There have been a lot of instances of the police-state in the 20th
century and prejudicial profiling has been a thing since the end of
segregat
Hi Nils,
Maybe this helps...with big data, social types can be formed as "likely" to
misbehave from cross-referencing and aggregating the data from facial
recognition, for instance - if suppositions about social types (are men of
color more likely to commit crime? - obviously not, but without any
Am Mon, 18 Sep 2017 10:54:30 +0200
schrieb Felix Stalder :
> As part of a new multimillion-dollar project in Xinjiang, the Chinese
> government is attempting to “build a fortress city with technologies.”
> If this sounds Orwellian, that’s because it is. According to the Sina
> online news portal,
em is the experience of the total breakdown of social bonds and
trust after a generation of breakneck transformation. Against this
background, social credit systems can be seen a way of reestablishing
trust in society. Felix]
China’s dystopian push to revolutionize surveillance
By Maya Wang | Augu
