Marc Schuilenburg

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | VU · Faculty of Law

Dit artikel trekt het fenomeen van big data policing breder dan tot nu toe is gedaan in de literatuur hierover. Verschillende elementen van big data policing zijn uitgediept, waaronder de partijen ('door', 'boven', 'naast' en 'onder' de politie) die actief zijn op dit gebied. Bijzondere aandacht is besteed aan het fenomeen 'luxe surveillance', waar...

Marc Schuilenburg en Martijn Wessels geven vier handvatten voor het ontwerp en de inzet van algoritmische toepassingen bij de politie. Naast de vraag naar de meerwaarde ervan dienen ze te worden getoetst aan internationale wet- en regelgeving. Daarnaast kunnen gebruikers en burgers meer worden betrokken bij het ontwerp en invoering ervan. Ook wordt...

This article analyses the increasingly influential role of tech companies in designing and deploying smart surveillance in private vehicles. Using the case of Tesla, a company that makes optimistic promises and has a hopeful vision for more sustainable electric cars by decreasing the ecological footprint, the article will discuss the problematic as...

In de afgelopen jaren hebben big data een revolutie teweeggebracht in veel domeinen, waaronder het politiewerk. Er is echter onvoldoende inzicht in de verschillende toepassingen die door de politie worden gebruikt en wat de mogelijke voordelen van big data-analyse zijn voor de politie. Literatuur over big data en politiewerk richt zich voornamelijk...

In de afgelopen jaren hebben big data een revolutie teweeggebracht in veel domeinen, waaronder het politiewerk. Er is echter onvoldoende inzicht in de verschillende toepassingen die door de politie worden gebruikt en wat de mogelijke voordelen van big data-analyse zijn voor de politie. Literatuur over big data en politiewerk richt zich voornamelijk...

This chapter analyzes the basis of present ‘security’ at the level of both discourse and practice by exploring the long-term process of transformation from a sovereign to a security society. In an extension on Foucault’s and Deleuze’s writings on power, a new type of power is introduced: ‘psychopower’, which makes it possible to channel our desires...

We live in a pre-crime society. Within this society, information technology strategies and techniques such as predictive policing, actuarial justice and surveillance penology are used to achieve hyper-securitization. However, such securitization comes at a cost. In this new people-making society, the criminalisation of everyday life is guaranteed,...

According to the medical world, hysteria is a thing of the past, an outdated diagnosis that has disappeared for good. This book argues that hysteria is in fact alive and well. Hyperventilating, we rush from one incident into the next – there is hardly time for a breather. From the worldwide run on toilet paper to cope with coronavirus fears to the...

The “smart city” has emerged as the latest urban buzzword in discussions of the elementary functions of the modern city. Attracting corporate power, money and private tech companies (e.g., Cisco, Google, IBM, Tesla), the smart city has become a popular brand because it is presented primarily as an evidence-based, objective and value-neutral concept...

Social imaginaries are fundamental in structuring our experiences, shaping our realities, and making our futures, as much as they are crucial in disabling alternative experiences. Today, few urban imaginaries are as popular as the smart city. Aiming at ‘repoliticising’ the smart city debate, we argue that while data-driven technologies and algorith...

This chapter explicates that the smart city is defined by a techno-utopian discourse, which presents smart technology as a value-neutral and rational tool in solving all kinds of urban problems. After analyzing several ethical issues relating to the smart city concept, Lefebvre’s notion of the “right to the city” from the 1960s is examined. While t...

The architecture of security is often thought of in terms of situational crime prevention and defensible space. In this article, we argue that the emergence of smart cities and smart technology compel a broader conceptualisation of the design of security, which has the potential to transform the governance of our urban landscape. Drawing on the cas...

The use of algorithms to predict behaviour is becoming the gold standard in criminal justice in various countries. This article critically analyses the algorithm-driven risk assessment tools used in predictive policing and predictive justice. First, we propose to see algorithms as essentially bureaucratic instruments. They are the digital offspring...

This article discusses the role of gift relations in the Anthropocene. We reinterpret Mauss’s original concept of the gift to understand its application and transformation in a social context that increasingly sees human behavior as a resource for the realization of governmental and corporate objectives. Contemporary gift relations focus on recipro...

This article addresses the question: ‘In what ways have nudging and other behavioural techniques entered the realm of policymaking for public health and what does that mean for the way contemporary society is governed?’ In our genealogy of Dutch public health policy, we have identified four periods: ‘rational persuasion/individual responsibility’ (...

By describing the practice of banning orders in the Netherlands, we investigate how the involved parties are dealing with their new responsibilities. We describe the way the changes in security management exert further influence in the spatial environment of city centers, and we analyze what this means in terms of equality of rights for all citizen...

Traditionally, security has been the realm of the state and its uniformed police. However, in the last two decades, many actors and agencies, including schools, clubs, housing corporations, hospitals, shopkeepers, insurers, energy suppliers and even private citizens, have enforced some form of security, effectively changing its delivery, and overal...

Safety and security are often seen in light of crime, disorder and fear. This fuels a political and social climate obsessed with a negative logic of ‘fighting’ criminals, ‘controlling’ populations, and ‘excluding’ unwanted others. Other, more positive or constitutive, discourses and practices about safety and security have fallen out of fashion. Bu...

In order to describe a sense of connection with the local without denying dynamic physical and virtual interper-sonal relationships , philosopher Marc Schuilen-burg introduces the term terroir. Introducing ter-roir as a right makes it possible for new subjectifi-cations to arise, with which the relationship between identity and places can be restor...

It is the contention of this article that a new subjectivity is taking shape in contemporary Western societies. This subjectivity is the effect of an ongoing transformation of power relations. Following Haggerty and Ericson, we call these emerging power relations ‘surveillant assemblages.’ These assemblages take shape against the background of a so...

In Mediapolis the authors sound out an urban environment pulsing to the rhythm of the popular media, exploring the interaction between the real and the virtual world, high and pop culture. This timely exploration introduces a pop philosophy whose concepts include the urban container, sonic communities and nodal urbanity and where technological, pol...

The film Minority Report (2002) describes a form of law enforcement that renders a perfect image of the essence of present-day security politics in our cities. The movie is based on Philip K. Dick's short story of the same name and takes place in Washington D.C. in the year 2054. The premise of the story is that in the last six years no murders hav...

De film Minority Report (2002) speelt zich af in het Washington D.C. van 2054. In die stad pakt de politie moordenaars op voordat ze de misdaad hebben gepleegd. Ze maakt hiervoor gebruik van drie ‘pre-cogs’ die over de bijzondere gave beschikken dat ze toekomstige moorden kunnen zien. Cruciaal in dit systeem is de algemene veronderstelling met betr...