<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dante-Gabryell Monson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 2:16 PM<br>Subject: Fwd: <nettime> When repression is cheaper than redistribution<br>To: Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Felix Stalder</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:felix@openflows.com" target="_blank">felix@openflows.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 10:44 AM<br>Subject: <nettime> When repression is cheaper than redistribution<br>To: <a href="mailto:nettime-l@mx.kein.org" target="_blank">nettime-l@mx.kein.org</a><br><br><br><br>
Recently, the German political scientist Ulrike Guérot argued that<br>
digital technologies changed the political calculus of the ruling<br>
elites: repression is now seen as cheaper than redistribution to<br>
maintain the system.<br>
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This research, by the Center for Political Studies (CPS), University of<br>
Michigan, puts numbers to this claim. Advanced democracies spent just<br>
shy of $9 billion to surveil 74% of their population, at a cost of<br>
$10/person. Now, this of course are not the entire costs of the<br>
apparatus of repression, but just indicates how incredibly cheap<br>
surveillance blanket surveillance has become.<br>
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To gain any traction for political change, we need to change this<br>
calculus, by making surveillance and repression expensive again.<br>
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Felix<br>
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<a href="http://cpsblog.isr.umich.edu/?p=2129" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://cpsblog.isr.umich.edu/?<wbr>p=2129</a><br>
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While nations worldwide have spent at least $27.1 billion USD (or $7 per<br>
individual) to surveil 4.138 billion individuals (i.e., 73 percent of<br>
the world population), stable autocracies are the highest per-capita<br>
spenders on mass surveillance. In total, authoritarian regimes have<br>
spent $10.967 billion USD to surveil 81 percent of their populations<br>
(0.1 billion individuals), even though this sub-set of states tends to<br>
have the lowest levels of high-technology capabilities. Stable<br>
autocracies have also invested 11-fold more than any other regime-type,<br>
by spending $110 USD per individual surveilled, followed second-highest<br>
by advanced democracies who have invested $8.909 billion USD in total<br>
($11 USD per individual) covering 0.812 billion individuals (74 percent<br>
of their population). In contrast to high-spending dictatorships and<br>
democracies, developing and emerging democracies have invested $4.784<br>
billion USD (or $1-2 per individual) for tracking 2.875 billion people<br>
(72 percent of their population).<br>
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It is possible that in a hyper-globalizing environment increasingly<br>
characterized by non-state economic (e.g., multi-national corporations)<br>
and political (e.g., transnational terror organizations) activity,<br>
nation-states have both learned from and mimicked each other’s<br>
investments in mass surveillance as an increasingly central activity in<br>
exercising power over their polities and jurisdictions. It is also<br>
likely that the technological revolution in digitally-enabled big data<br>
and cloud computing capabilities as well as the ubiquitous digital<br>
wiring of global populations (through mobile telephony and digital<br>
communication) have technically enabled states to access and organize<br>
population-wide data on their citizens in ways not possible in previous<br>
eras.<br>
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