Living in a carceral state

The twenty-first century carceral state inspires anxieties of a national or even global-scale panopticon. Omniscient and omnipresent technologies report our movements, purchases, communications, and even desires to invisible and unaccountable corporations and government agencies (the public/private distinction having lost effective meaning). In practice, however, some people are obviously more vulnerable to coercive state power than others; intrusive surveillance techniques predate the Internet; and socio-technical systems routinely fail.

• Chris Gilliard
• Ursula Rao
• Carolyn Sufrin
• John Carson
• Behind Walls, Beyond Discipline: Science, Technology, and the Carceral State
• Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
• Science Technology and Public Policy