1st Ethnographies of Science & Technology Workshop
第一回「科学技術の民族誌研究会」
Preventive Potentials: On Surveillance and Popular Culture
Christopher Gad
(Assistant Professor, IT University of Copenhagen)
【日時】2011年5月26日14時より
【場所】京都大学北部キャンパス・農学生命科学研究棟 1F 104号室
アクセス：http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/access/campus/map6r_n.htm
問い合わせ先：森田敦郎 morita@hus.osaka-u.ac.jp
ABSTRACT
This talk uses the movie Minority Report (2002) as an entry point for discussing conceptions of surveillance technologies and their preventive capacities. The technological research project Intelligent Surveillance Systems located in Belfast shares a vision with MR: that it is possible to construct surveillance systems that are able to foresee criminal acts and thus to prevent them from happening. We argue that the movie exemplifies that technological development and popular culture share dreams, ideas and visions. Popular culture informs technological development and vice versa. The talk explores this relation and how investigating popular cultural sources in detail can expand discussions about surveillance and the (future) capacities of technology.
発表者紹介
発表者紹介：Gad氏は、監視システム（surveillance technology）を主にactor-network theory (ANT) の観点から研究されてきました。近年では、人類学とくにMarilyn Strathernらの研究からインスパイアされたユニークな研究をとおして、ANTの視点をさらに発展させようとしています。主論文：On the Consequences of Post-ANT, Science, Technology and Human Values 35(1)。