Was war Surveillance 1.0?

Ein Gespräch über Computergeschichte, Mainframes und Zauberspiegel

Abstract

Media scholar Dietmar Kammerer and Nils Zurawski, sociologist and editor of the blog surveillance-studies.org. met on the occasion of the 2019 Tubingen conference Surveillance 2.0. Motivated by Kammerer’s lecture the two talk about notions of the “electronic brain”, which has been part of many historic science fiction narratives. Kammerer explains how the metaphors and visual imaginations of then envisioned futures have changed in light of technological evolutions and hence the surveillance of society at large. And they explore why we witness yet a different contemporary situation then these imaginations have thought of.