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a new piece just out on surveillance and security in science fiction novels in the decade after 9 11 https doi org 10 24908 ss v24i1 18242 based on a formally sampled survey of 120 post 9 11 transatlantic science fiction sf novels in english published between 2002 2011 inclusive and a thematic reading of thirty eight of these works this paper analyses the place and treatment of surveillance and security in the culture of empire the paper identifies several important post 9 11 interventions in sf and argues that in comparison to some of the weak mainstream literary work on 9 11 and the long war sf has produced some of the bleakest and most insightful responses however it also argues that there is a clear transatlantic division between the critical sharp and cynical work being produced by british sf authors and the predominantly nostalgic militaristic or techno utopian responses of north american sf authors it concludes with some reflections not just on the place of post 9 11 surveillance and security in sf but on the continuing relevance of sf to critical surveillance and security studies and in broader social terms it s part of a brilliant special double issue on surveillance and literature edited by recent ssn book prize winner stephanie j brown https ojs library queensu ca index php surveillance and society issue view 1104 this project is a side project to my main research work that i ve been working on in the background for over a decade and is a real labour of love there will be other forthcoming papers from the project which deal with the following decade 2012 2021 and the overall thematic analysis of around 250 sf novels over the two decades following 9 11 2002 2021 author david posted on march 22 2026 categories academic arts journals literature publications science fiction science fiction security surveillance tags science fiction security surveillance leave a comment on new piece on surveillance and science fiction the surveillance studies centre 2000 2022 this page is here really simply to provide a link to the archive of the surveillance studies centre ssc at queen s university https wayback archive it org org 1149 20231011203824 https www surveillance studies ca but i thought i might also offer some reflections although the ssc is not mine to claim in any way that honour goes entirely to the founder and director for most of ssc s existence professor david lyon however one of the saddest tasks i have had to carry out in academia was the closure of the ssc it s pretty much what i spent my last year doing at the university the only year i was the director for the entire previous year the then incoming deputy director alana saulnier and i spent exploring many different options for how the ssc might be able to continue we looked at models for small centres across canada and beyond for multi university centres for all kinds of options we explored being merged into something bigger within queen s we produced a report and made proposals for the centre to operate as a virtual entity but the fundamental problems were 1 the ssc had no money and no big grant in prospect to keep it going and pay its longstanding staff joan sharpe and emily smith and 2 queen s had changed the rules about what constituted a centre and the ssc regardless of its reputation and success was just too small to qualify but the ssc was successful and did still does have a global reputation that s what was so hard to take for those of us who worked there the surveillance studies centre was started in 2000 by david lyon and the late elia zureik and it began long before i was involved as the surveillance project it became a centre within the department of sociology in 2009 and eventually a faculty level centre within the faculty of arts and sciences it was a pillar of the emergence of surveillance studies as a transdisciplinary field with david lyon being one of the originators of this field as well as being one of the five scholars that created the journal surveillance society with kirstie ball clive norris steve graham and i all then based in the uk and then the surveillance studies network ssn the ssc nurtured a lot of ma and phd students to the extent that at some points it was really underpinning the sociology graduate programme at queen s as the centre expanded its students started to come from law geography and cultural studies not just from sociology and there were collaborations with departments and centres from history through neurosciences to computing but sociology remained its home these students went everywhere many are now tenured professors and most are still very much involved in surveillance studies there were visitors from all over the world there were really important research projects and partnerships from the globalization of personal data through the surveillance camera action network and the new transparency to big data surveillance there were debates and seminars art exhibitions the amazing screening surveillance film series and more the outputs of these are all still available to peruse on the archived site which remains as it was as of 3 years ago in 2023 https wayback archive it org org 1149 20231011203824 https www surveillance studies ca things change research centres and project come and go academia is a collective enterprise and surveillance studies has never been stronger more diverse or more global but please don t forget the surveillance studies centre and use the archive author david posted on march 2 2026 categories surveillance leave a comment on the surveillance studies centre 2000 2022 platform city people finally published i have a chapter platform city people out in this fully open access book being human in the digital world edited by val steeves and beate roessler from cambridge please read everything in it https www cambridge org core books being human in the digital world platform city people 00049338349668a16f48038ddcc42769 it s a piece about how the developers and promoters of what we might call post smart cities platform cities or ai cities see the putative inhabitants of these exclusive and exclusionary places i wrote this quite a while ago now and in a deliberately accessible style and more than a little bit polemical satirical and sarcastic in its tone i think it still stands up well the whole book is here and it also includes great things from the likes of frank pasquale julie cohen and azadeh akbari amongst many others https www cambridge org core books being human in the digital world d8cc33cf026507f324af00ceec7c894c author david posted on november 14 2025 categories academic book smart city urbanism utopianism tags books platform city platforms smart cities smart city leave a comment on platform city people ambient government revisited a few years ago i was talking around the place about surveillance security and ambient government or ambient governance but it turned out that so were plenty of other people and no one person really has a claim on this phrase or others like it it was somewhat appropriate in the academic air at the time and it still should be looking back on it i don t think i ve bettered how i discussed this back then and i never fully published what i was talking about so here is the vastly underwatched talk i gave in victoria back in 2014 if you have 45 minutes to spare i think it s worth a watch plus i look so young author david posted on november 14 2025 november 14 2025 categories academic algorithms automation computing military research security smart city surveillance ubicomp urbanism tags ambient intelligence security surveillance ubisurv leave a comment on ambient government revisited call planetary surveillance ssn2026 call for abstracts panels planetary surveillance the 11th biennial surveillance studies network surveillance society conference ssn2026 9 12 june 2026 université catholique de lille france our next conference will take place in the city of lille northern france it s being run by the folks at cethics istc the main conference will take place over 3 full days from 10 12 june with a pre conference doctoral colloquium occurring on 9 june and there will probably be other events around the conference to be confirmed all in person sessions from the main conference will be streamed online and there will also be a dedicated online track with remote presentations for presenters who cannot attend in person as usual while there is a headline theme anything to do with surveillance surveillance studies goes details surveillance studies net conference submissions open soon ssn2026 sciencesconf org author david posted on october 29 2025 categories surveillance tags conference ssn surveillance surveillance conference leave a comment on call planetary surveillance ssn2026 global governance of post smart cities workshop i am decompressing after our global governance of post smart cities workshop last week a fabulous few days of discussion at the intersection of space cities political economy history media and technology there was no audience no preconceived outcome just some of my favourite scholars brought together for a few gorgeous autumn days in ottawa to talk about ideas this is what academia should be about but very rarely is the concept of the post smart city is a deliberately provocative term which i and several others have proposed and which i am exploring in my current research what i am trying to capture here is the plethora of different things that seems to be emerging out of the concept of the smart city e g platform cities ai cities super cities cognitive cities right through to weirdness like the network state and the bringing then together with libertarian and national projects for new cities as permanent experiments i am thinking of post very much in the sense of post modern or post structural in which the post doesn t indicate that the thing has been superseded but that it includes and builds on it taking it in new directions however i am also thinking of latour s critique that we have never been modern maybe we are in a post smart situation but have never really been smart in any case as a provocation for discussion it worked really well in this context the main sessions were as follows zones of interest neoliberal cities my own private idaho libertarian cities from the internet up platform and media cities fitter happier more productive from smart to ai cities meet the new boss same as the old boss post colonial cities cleaner greener meaner un sustainable cities a new life awaits you in the offworld colonies extraplanetary cities i originally gave a prompt for each and encouraged the leaders of each session to do what they wanted with the subject in the end most adopted a fairly conventional presentation and discussion format and the discussion was great but i am wondering how to do things even more differently next time there was a also a public event on the first evening of the workshop rethinking our futures in an age of crisis featuring quinn slobodian ayona datta orit halphen and nick couldry in conversation with me there will be further reflections and eventually a full report published by cigi online an enormous thank you to my co organizers vincent mirza and azadeh akbari those who accepted our curious invitation rowland atkinson ilia antenucci yung au kelly bronson nick couldry raymond craib federico cugurullo ayona datta mehdi ghassemi orit halpern olivier jutel roger keil casey lynch tim maughan kevin mcmillan carolyn prouse renée sieber isabelle simpson quinn slobodian alina utrata niloufar vadiati catherine vandermeulen dwayne winseck liam cole young css lab and clts grads and postdocs jennie day david eliot zimo meng claire wang aiden bradley and gabriella di biaggi those who wanted to be here but were unable to come because of inequitable visa and immigration systems and the climate of fear hend ali and ahmed m eleish our funders sshrc crsh connection grants the centre for international governance innovation cigi and the research center for the future of cities and the centre for law technology and society clts both at the university of ottawa author david posted on october 22 2025 october 22 2025 categories conferences media research smart city urbanism utopianism tags ai city platform city post smart city smart city leave a comment on global governance of post smart cities workshop post smart cities as digital authoritarian polities i have a short piece out in the excellent new journal dialogues on digital society which takes a brief look at the right wing politics of the praxis network state initiative https journals sagepub com doi 10 1177 29768640251377168 my piece is fully open access and free to read download etc this is part of an excellent special issue of almost 50 short pieces on digital authoritarianism by lots of excellent folks which are being published online first as they are finished read them all author david posted on september 19 2025 categories academic journals smart city urbanism utopianism tags authoritarianism fascism smart cities tescreal leave a comment on post smart cities as digital authoritarian polities only dis connect i have a short essay on the obsession with connection and its conjoined ethical and cybersecurity problems just out in first monday only dis connect https firstmonday org ojs index php fm article view 13776 this piece was originally written on request and at very short notice for an edited collection and then was unexpectedly rejected by the editors who had requested it anyway now instead of being in a book that few people will read it s in journal that anyone and everyone can read first monday is one of those genuinely open access no apcs journals that appears on my list of radical open access journals in the social sciences that we should support author david posted on august 22 2025 categories surveillance leave a comment on only dis connect canada postdoctoral research award 2025 opportunity i m looking for an outstanding near complete or complete phd to apply for a prestigious canada postdoctoral research award to work with me in css lab at the uottawa the award is worth up to 70 000 cad for 2 years and you would start in the second half of 2026 if successful candidates would be working on a project of their choice within one of three broad areas 1 surveillance security and post smart cities looking at plans for and development of ai driven private cities and special zones 2 hired hackers and private spies working on the proliferation of private surveillance companies worldwide 3 surveillance and the planetary polycrisis looking at the surveillance implications and issues in global environmental management candidates should either already be working in one of these areas and be familiar with the literature uottawa particularly encourages candidates from under represented and equity seeking groups the successful candidate would be able to be associated with please see the details...