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Surveillance as Gesture
Alienation in the Age of the Doorbell Camera
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 June 2024
Abstract
Surveillance is gestic, in Bertolt Brecht’s sense: it constitutes and is constituted by a set of practices that police and control the social at the level of gestures. In a surveillant Gestus of the everyday, gestures conscribe bodies as subjects of surveillance, from the touchscreen scroll that operates Amazon’s Neighbors social network to the hands-over-head posture imaged by airport body scanners. Gestures, not digital devices, watch—and enforce—the bounds of a “criminal” human.
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- © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU