Surveillance and the redefinition of individuals and reality

Keywords: hermeneutic differentiation, power relations, resistance, systems theory
Agencies: Gobierno Vasco

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This essay provides an overview of the relationship between surveillance, individuals, and reality. To do this, I use a multilevel perspective that connects power (from agency to structure) to social systems theory. This novel approach means taking a holistic view on how individuals are managed beyond ideas of resistance and technology. At the agency level, individuals are constrained by continuous interactions through digital and behavioral exploitation. In the second meso-level, individuals attach to an informational system that renders, sorts, and distorts data fragments that resemble their ontology. Finally, at the structural level, more than being fragmented subjects, I argue that individuals and data constitute a new hermeneutic cycle in which reality itself is redefined in an autopoietic reading of things distanced from subjects and knowledge.

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Jaseff Raziel Yauri-Miranda, Universidad del País Vasco

Jaseff Raziel Yauri-Miranda is a postdoc researcher at University of Deusto. He worked in the Department of Political Science at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS) in Rome, and at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) where he obtained his PhD. His research fields include accountability, governance, surveillance networks, and security policies. He received the Jean Pinatel Prize of Criminology in 2016 and collaborated with several institutions such as the Harvard University, USA; the International Association of Political Science, Italy; the Center for Strategic Studies on Intelligence, Brazil; the International Group on Governance, (In)security and Intelligence, Romania; the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece; and the Surveillance Studies Centre, Canada.

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2021-12-10
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Yauri-Miranda J. R. (2021). Surveillance and the redefinition of individuals and reality. Teknokultura. Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements, 19(1), 5-12. https://doi.org/10.5209/tekn.74723

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