{"id":38,"date":"2011-06-05T12:06:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T16:06:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephengill.com\/news\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance, Finance &#038; Production: Commercial and Military Power in an Era of Networked Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Google and Google Scholar searches suggest that one of my earlier articles on related subjects published in 1995 as &#8220;The Global Panopticon?&#8221; in the journal Alternatives has disappeared from the internet. To make this more widely available this article is posted here since &#8211; at least in my view &#8211; some of its concerns endure (it involves a dialogue with the likes of Bentham, Marx, Foucault and various theorists of neo-liberalism).<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Nonetheless some of its notes on the internet may seem outdated or even quaint in light of the massive amplification of surveillance\/networking technologies related to both military and commercial developments such as Facebook, Google etc. I think it can still, however, be read as an early theorization of some of the contradictions of contemporary capitalist development, e.g see Part III, especially the section on &#8220;The risky business of global finance&#8221;, where I noted its propensity to sudden collapse because of its self-regulation, financial innovations (e.g. derivatives) and capture of state interests by Wall Street in the USA, to say nothing of the lack of effective or prudential global regulation of finance.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a PDF copy of that piece: <a>https:\/\/stephengill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/THE-GLOBAL-PANOPTICON.pdf<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google and Google Scholar searches suggest that one of my earlier articles on related subjects published in 1995 as &#8220;The Global Panopticon?&#8221; in the journal Alternatives has disappeared from the internet. To make this more widely available this article is posted here since &#8211; at least in my view &#8211; some of its concerns endure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephengill.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephengill.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephengill.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephengill.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephengill.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephengill.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephengill.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephengill.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}