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Asked 19 July 2013
Chris Campbell
Chris Campbell

Is anyone aware of any work on the nature of truth in surveillance?

I'm particularly interested in it from an actual/virtual Deluezean sense, or in terms of Baudrillard's simulacrum, where the (in this instance surveillance data) is not a copy or data-double in the sense used in surveillance studies, but is truth in itself. Haven't seen anything useful, but may be looking in the wrong places...
Social and Political Philosophy
Truth
Philosophy
Surveillance
Deleuze

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Christopher James Davia
International Laboratory of Contemporary Physics
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