Event overview
Workshop with Grégoire Chamayou
The precondition for the recently revealed practices of state surveillance lies in a broader sociotechnical fact: the ubiquitous electronic capture of the traces of most of our social activities. We witness the emergence of a generalized ‘bio-graphic’ regime that tends to turn each micro-event of each life into registered data. One of the most common means to deal with such a mass of accumulated data consists notably in extracting ‘patterns’ by way of algorithmic processing. Both counter-insurgency analysts and marketing experts search for ‘patterns of behaviour’ or ‘patterns of life’ in order to identify their target – be it a potential customer or an alleged terrorist. This vocabulary, along with the corresponding methodologies and epistemological categories, is shared today among very heterogeneous fields of power. The aim of this workshop is to try to sketch a contemporary genealogy of the use of patterns of life as tools of government. A pattern, certain kind of graphs, will provide us with the breadcrumb trail for this sporadic enquiry.
Please email shela.sheikh@gold.ac.uk to register and request preparatory readings.
Dates & times
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27 May 2015 | 3:00pm - 5:30pm |
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