Over a decade ago, Mike Davis wrote Beyond Blade Runner:
Urban Control, The Ecology of Fear for the Open Magazine
Pamphlet Series. Basically, it was an early warning about how
agents of authority were using fear
(in this case, with the crack wars looming large, mostly
inner city, drug-related crime, not terrorism) to gain
acceptance of the chipping away of privacy rights. He talked
a lot about the growing
"comprehensive surveillance," leading to a city where all
surveillance systems would be linked and every inch of the
cityscape would be accessible to some security camera.
>From various offhand references in recent British
crime fiction, both
books and TV, I have gotten the impression that that is now
pretty much the case in London. Is that so?
Mark
-- # Plain ASCII text only, please. Anything else won't show up. # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 26 Mar 2004 EST