David Lyon Zitate

“Surveillance today is a means of sorting and classifying populations and not just of invading personal space or violating the privacy of individuals. In postmodernizing contexts surveillance is an increasingly powerful means of reinforcing social divisions, as the superpanoptic sort relentlessly screens, monitors and classifies to determine eligibility and access, to include and to exclude.”

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David Lyon

§9, p. 151
Surveillance society

“What persists into postmodern conditions is an abiding infrastructural dependence on communication and information technologies. They are undoubtedly viewed in the popular and political imaginations as far more beneficial than baleful to humanity. That they will continue to expand their influence is beyond doubt, short of some global catastrophe.”

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David Lyon

§8, p. 139
Surveillance society

“The panopticon produces subjects with desires to improve their inner lives. In contrast the superpanopticon constitutes objects, individuals with dispersed identities, who may remain unaware of how those identities are construed by the computer. We are once again back with disappearing bodies.”

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David Lyon

§7, p. 115
Surveillance society

“What a contrast with the lives of ordinary people at the start of twenty-first century! Today, everyday life is constantly monitored.”

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David Lyon

Part III, p. 105
Surveillance society

“Comint represents the effort to gain access to, intercept and process every important modern form of communication, in every significant sphere, and in many countries.”

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David Lyon

§6, p. 95
Surveillance society