I published an article in the Platform Surveillance issue of Surveillance & Society back in March, but was so busy at the time that I neglected to post it here. Here is the abstract and link to the full text online:
The concept of porosity, developed by
Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis, is proposed as a useful concept for
examining the political, social, and economic impacts of digital
platform surveillance on social space. As a means of characterizing
and comparing how interconnected spaces are shaped through a
diversity of interfaces, porosity bypasses a simplistic distinction
between analog and digital technologies without losing sight of the
actual material affordances, social and surveillance practices, and
politics that these differing and interacting technologies enable. As
part of Benjamin’s project of uncovering the tension between the
present and the utopian visions that capitalism repeatedly invokes
through new technologies, an attention to the politics of porosity
can situate the effects of digital platforms within the ongoing
history of struggle over the production and experience of urban
space.
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