File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1994/F-4, message 29


Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 15:12:38 -0500 (EST)
From: jrv7472 <jrv7472-AT-is.NYU.EDU>
To: foucault-AT-world.std.com
Subject: Re: Surveillance and discipline




On Fri, 25 Nov 1994, Stephen Katz wrote:
> What happens when, as in the Rodney King case, other
> subjects join the game of recording and democratically challenge those
> who control visible-power?

Indeed, what about when criminals begin taping their crimes (including 
murder), bringing their own cameras when they do what they do?

Or how about the ability of the state (in the King case, the prosecutor) 
to manipulate the video images so that they can convince a jury to acquit 
the police?
  

   

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