The company, which has a hundred and thirty thousand cameras monitoring the streets of the U.S., frames privacy as a worthwhile trade-off for safety and security, echoing the language of the post-9/11...

Please join Parsons Media Studies and Eugene Lang Culture and Media in celebrating the release of R. Joshua Scannell and David Bering-Porter’s highly anticipated new books, The Carceral Surround and U...

Author R. Joshua Scannell breaks down his new book The Carceral Surround: what it is, why it matters, and what he hopes readers take away from it. Description: As law enforcement agencies deploy increasingly advanced technologies to suppress dissent, hunt migrants, and target marginalized communities, The Carceral Surround offers a powerful new theory of police and prison power in the digital age. Demonstrating that understanding digital policing requires confronting the political and racial logics that sustain police power, R. Joshua Scannell presents a rare hybrid of critique and refusal that imagines pathways for collective resistance. For more information on The Carceral Surround, visit the book's web page: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921255/the-carceral-surround/

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Policing and incarceration in the twenty-first century are not wholly human practices. The strategies, tactics, and encounters that organize the carceral state are developed and prosecuted in colla…

How digital technologies entrench state power—and a new vision for resistanceAs law enforcement agencies deploy increasingly advanced technologies to suppr...