Haggerty K D, Ericson R V
Department of Sociology, University of Alberta.
Br J Sociol. 2000 Dec;51(4):605-22. doi: 10.1080/00071310020015280.
George Orwell's 'Big Brother' and Michel Foucault's 'panopticon' have dominated discussion of contemporary developments in surveillance. While such metaphors draw our attention to important attributes of surveillance, they also miss some recent dynamics in its operation. The work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari is used to analyse the convergence of once discrete surveillance systems. The resultant 'surveillant assemblage' operates by abstracting human bodies from their territorial settings, and separating them into a series of discrete flows. These flows are then reassembled in different locations as discrete and virtual 'data doubles'. The surveillant assemblage transforms the purposes of surveillance and the hierarchies of surveillance, as well as the institution of privacy.
乔治·奥威尔笔下的“老大哥”和米歇尔·福柯提出的“全景敞视监狱”主导了关于当代监控发展的讨论。虽然这些隐喻让我们注意到了监控的重要属性，但它们也忽略了监控运作中一些近期的动态变化。吉尔斯·德勒兹和费利克斯·加塔利的著作被用于分析曾经分散的监控系统的融合。由此产生的“监控组合体”通过将人体从其所处的地域环境中抽象出来，并将它们分离成一系列离散的信息流来运作。然后，这些信息流在不同地点被重新组合成离散的虚拟“数据替身”。监控组合体改变了监控的目的、监控的层级体系以及隐私制度。
