LFI 2025/Week 5

Week 5: Carceral surveillance: how the state and its appendages use technology

• Real time lecture: Wednesday June 4th, 12-2 pacific/ 1-3 mountain/ 2-4 central/ 3-5 eastern
• Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/9129428892
• Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16AlP0c4ox28yugbLXkhCkGS1hAAS3JJp192K35s7Z_0/edit?usp=sharing

Readings

Sorry, once again I ended up with a lot of readings! Just get through what you get through.

(Please let me know if you hit any paywalls and I'll send archived links)

• Community Defense: interview with Sarah T. Hamid on abolishing carceral technologies, in Logic(s) issue 11
• Israeli Mass Surveillance in the Brain of Your Phone, from Anthony Lowenstein's (excellent) The Palestine Laboratory Part One Part Two
• Success Lies in the Secrecy, from Byron Tau's Means of Control
• Overview of DHS/ICE/CBP surveillance capabilities and practices
• ICE's relationship with private intelligence firm Palantir
• Introduction to Fusion Centers
• Example of how policing and intelligence is used against movement organizing and what should be protected free speech
• This is a great ACLU resource outlining some major police technologies
• Atlas of Surveillance, an interactive map of US police tech - just spend some time clicking around
• Surveillance Watch, a global map of policing and intelligence tech and their vendors. I recommend searching some of the companies from this week's readings.

Tasks

• Discord discussion from week 3