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David H. Price, "The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent" (Pluto Press, 2022)

New Books in Anthropology

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Is the Future of Surveillance Normalized?

I think there's been a lot of different factors which contributed to this, more than one, multiple factors, definitely. It would be interesting to do a comparative study because in Germany, for instance, still surveillance is very much criticized and not normalized legitimized. In the US and the UK, it's totally normalized and seems to be part of the society, social relations. I'm not overly optimistic, because this has happened so steadily without people getting upset. You see people on the right, writing things where they're concerned that maybe their political beliefs are being monitored and things like that. And once the, you go from the Trump administration to the Biden administration, it doesn't matter that the

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