LFI 2025/Week 5
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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
- Question pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/LFI-questions-keep
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
