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Seeing Like a Border: Biometrics and the Operational Image

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dc.creatorAndrejevic, Mark
dc.creatorZala, Volcic
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-01T11:39:02Z
dc.date.available2024-03-01T11:39:02Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis article considers the role played by automated vision in trans- forming bodies into “operational images” that enable the expansion of borders into enclosures – and the multiplication of these enclosures. In this respect, we seek to expand on Chris Rumford’s (2011) invitation to consider what it might mean to “see like a border” (67). We argue that the iconic character of the image – as representation – is col- lapsed into its operational character by the automated sensing system, and then go on to consider the traces of the visual that remain in the context of such ‘images’. We then consider the modality of governance that operates in the register of the operational image – one in which physical space becomes deformable at the granular, individual level, along the lines envisioned by Deleuze in his discussion of societies of control (Deleuze 2017). The resulting form of governance might be described, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, as the deployment of a granular form of biopower – one that requires the milieu, or envi- ronment, to become deformable and customisable. This, of course, is the mode of power and control anticipated by those who seek to develop and capture the terrains of augmented and virtual reality – or, in more recent terminology, the realm of the “metaverse”.en
dc.identifier.doi10.14361/dcs-2021-070207
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21874
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.14361/dcs-2021-070207/html
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/23220
dc.languageeng
dc.publishertranscript
dc.publisher.placeBielefeld
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2364-2114
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDigital Culture & Society
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectBiometricsen
dc.subjectSurveillanceen
dc.subjectBordersen
dc.subjectOperational Imageen
dc.subjectBiopoweren
dc.subject.ddcddc:700
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.titleSeeing Like a Border: Biometrics and the Operational Imageen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2024-03-02T02:40:36
local.source.epage158
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleNetworked Images in Surveillance Capitalism
local.source.spage139
local.source.volume7

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