Categorical Suspicion

Gary T. Marx spoke of police classifications of likely suspects (p. 122). Suspicious categories are replacing the "individual evildoers" (p. 101).

According to Lewis (2006), Bogard thinks we are at the edge of “a new age of surveillance that operates through the projection of codes and creates virtual realities. This is the age of simulated surveillance…[and] simulation is “the panoptic imaginary” [quoted from Bogard p. 19] (p. 268). Surveillance is creating “virtual, programmable hyper-realities that control events and outcomes before they actually occur” (p. 268).

References:

Bauman, Z. & Lyon, D. (2013). Liquid surveillance. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Lewis, T. (2006). Critical surveillance literacy. Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies 6(2), 263-81.