DestroyingTheApparatusOfSurveillanceAndControl

Resisting, Subverting and Destroying the Apparatus of Surveillance and Control

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  The problem with implementing a lot of this in the U.S. and in inner cities in
  particular is that it wouldn't survive for a day! They would have to in some
  way to arm, fortify and protect surveillance cameras. The degree of vandalism
  in American inner cities is so advanced and extensive... I once calculated the
  square footage of graffiti in LA and interviewed people cleaning up graffiti.
  One morning I got up and the inside of my mailbox had been tagged. When you
  have that many kids engaging with vandalism, graffiti etc. they will start
  putting up cameras but they are going to be broken and torn down. It might work
  well with the middle class - it will work well at leafy suburbs of Santon or
  white parts of Johannesburg but when you start putting the surveillance cameras
  in the townships or the American ghettos, you will have to have a policeman
  standing in front of them each. This is one of the contradictions of
  surveillance society. CCTV is not nearly as advanced in the US as in Europe.
  People are more reassured by private police in the U.S.

  [...]

  If you wanted to generate a theory of participatory architecture or urbanism,
  vandalism seemed to be the most common and popular form of participating in the
  built environment by revolting against its dehumanisation, in working class
  council estates in American inner cities and so on.

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