Globalization of Surveillance

Armand Mattelart is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris VIII.

"A tightly packed and critical history of the global rise of security, surveillance and suspicion."David Lyon, Queens University "This book cuts through the clutter of post-9/11 political rhetoric to reveal the contours of a global capitalist surveillance economy in which the logics of policing and marketing converge. Mattelart counters the urgent injunction to ignore history in the face of the contemporary threat (because 'everything has changed') by exploring the long marriage between capitalism and surveillance. The book shows us how the mobilization of the promise of security has been used to undermine freedom, and suggests what it might mean to think the two together. This is an indispensable work that explores the sometimes invisible atmosphere in which we move: that of ubiquitous surveillance, tracking, and targeting - and the interests which these serve."Mark Andrejevic, University of Iowa

• IntroductionI Disciplining / Managing1 - Surveillance: delinquency as a political observatory2 - Punishing: the apprehended multitude3 - Managing Mass Society: the lessons of total warII Hegemonizing / Pacifying4 - The Cold War and the religion of national security5 - "Civic action" or the reappropriation of the national security doctrine6 - Counterinsurgency, the crossroads of expeditionary forces7 - The internationalisation of tortureIII Securitizing / Insecuritizing8 - The new domestic order9 - War without end: the techno-security paradigm10 - The European Police Area11 - The traceability of bodies and goodsEpilogue