LFI 2026/Week 4

Week 4: State and carceral surveillance and its relation to technofascists

• Real time lecture: March 13th, 11-1 pacific/12-2 mountain/1-3 central/2-4 pm eastern
• Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/9129428892
• Slides: TBD

Readings

If you can't get to all the readings this week, just choose one from each of the following sections.

Mapping the Surveillance Stack

• Authoritarian Stack
  • A map of the people, ideologies, and companies behind technofascism
• 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. We recommend searching some of the companies from this week's readings.

The Tech

• ACLU resource outlining some major police technologies
• 404 Media zine about ICE surveillance
• Cooper wrote this about ICE surveillance capabilities

The People and Nations Behind the Tech

• Compelling essay by someone who used to work for Palantir
• Israeli Mass Surveillance in the Brain of Your Phone, from Anthony Lowenstein's The Palestine Laboratory Part one and part two

What We Do About It

• Community Defense: interview with Sarah T. Hamid on abolishing carceral technologies, in Logic(s) issue 11

Guest lecturer

Cooper Quintin, senior staff technologist at Electronic Frontier Foundation

Tasks

• Discord discussion from week 3