Subtopia & la Cuarta Guerra Mundial

Subtopia: Una Guía de Campo sobre el Urbanismo Militarizado, narra los eventos del paisaje global en contextos de militarización y sus repercusiones, diseño urbano y estrategia militar. Un exquisito blog que te deja los pelos de punta, escalofriante una vez +  (ultimamente casi todo nos lo parece) de Brian Finoki, un polifacetico blogger, fotografo y escritor freelance (entre otras mil caras) autor junto a Angela Mitropoulos de Borders 2.0: Future, Tense un interesante articulo sobre las cada vez + difusas y débiles fronteras entre el control urbano y social por medio de vigilancia militarizada-policial, como EVIDGE o FaceBook sin ir mas lejos... o Google

Os dejamos con un trozo de Borders 2.0, el cual es perfectamente ilustrado con el trabajo de jfxgonzalez (presentado por Carmen Romero en Generatech2008) una aguda mirada a las leyes y sistemas de extranjeria, al regimen comunitario y las implicaciones de lo extracomunitario, a los límites de identidad y seguridad a los que apela el Terrorismo de Estado, como el Departamento de Fronteras y Categorizaciones Sociales.

 [Recognition]
Biometric and surveillance technologies make everyone a suspect of no specific charge. They are the principles of measure and classification applied to skin contours, eye, bone, gait, voice, affect, comportment. They are the border guard’s question of ‘Halt, who goes there?’ – the interrogative which seeks identification as the condition of crossing – multiplied and (post)industrialised. Recognition technologies surmount Orwell’s cherished distinction between public and private spaces, all the way down into the body, internalising the citizen’s yearning for that distinction’s resurrection, as the re-privatisation of dissent and difference. They are supposed to make one long to pass, to belong, as a good citizen might. Even so, as the high-tech offspring of phrenology and eugenics, bundled as security doctrine, the most notable features of biometrics and surveillance are the scandals of (sometimes lethal) misrecognition, their cost, and their remarkable failure. Certain identification is recurrently disoriented by movement. Someone grimaces, another turns around, or moves just a little, runs too fast, speaks through the fog of a blocked nose, fidgets nervously, walks on. Racial profiling, for all its aggressive materiality, remains a discretionary and actuarial operation. Movements can only be captured as data or image after they occur. What makes bodies unlike things is where the technologies of recognition falter.

Esto es la Cuarta Guerra Mundial!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!