27-08-2020
The book “Sensing In/Securities”, published by Nina Klimburg-Witjes, Nikolaus Poechhacker and Geoffrey C. Bowker, is available as pre-print since 17 August.
Sensing In/Security is a book project that investigates how sensors and sensing practices enact regimes of security and insecurity. It extends long standing concerns with infrastructuring and emergent modes of surveillance and securitization by investigating how digitally networked sensors shape practices of securitization.
Contributions in this volume engage with the ways in which sensing devices gain political and epistemic relevance in various forms of security, from border security and migration control to drone regulation, epidemiological tracking, aerial surveillance and hacking practices.
Nikolaus Poechhacker is part of the Department Eisenberger. In his work he is researching the relationship between democratic institutions, social order, and algorithmic systems in various domains, bringing together perspectives from Media Theory, STS, Computer Science, and Sociology. Most recently, he is exploring the impact of algorithmic procedures and digital legal technologies on the legal system.
Further information on the book can be found here: https://www.matteringpress.org/books/sensing-in-security