Compliance-Industrial Complex

Tereza Østbø Kuldova is Research Professor at the Work Research Institute, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. She holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Oslo and is the author of How Outlaws Win Friends and Influence People (Palgrave, 2019), Luxury Indian Fashion: A Social Critique (Bloomsbury, 2016), co-editor of Crime, Harm and Consumerism (Routledge, 2020), Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs and Street Gangs (Palgrave, 2018) and Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia (Palgrave, 2017).

“Kuldova’s book offers a short and powerful summary of the ideology that largely supports the automation of society.” (Algorithm Watch, r.algorithmwatch.org, November 1, 2022)

• Preface.- Part I. Compliance-Industrial Complex and the Anti-Policy Syndrome.- 1. Introduction to Part I: Compliance-Industrial Complex and the Anti-Policy Syndrome.- 2. The Anti-Policy Syndrome.- 3. The Compliance-Industrial Complex.- Part II. Compliance as the Operating System of a Pre-Crime Society.- 4. Introduction to Part II: Compliance as the Operating System of a Pre-Crime Society.- 5. The Pre-emption of Dissent. 6. Compliance-Industrial Complex and its Experts.- 7. Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms and the Manufacturing of Suspicion and Risk.