Dr Darren Ellis Darren.Ellis@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
The affective atmospheres of surveillance
Ellis, Darren; Tucker, Ian; Harper, David
Authors
Ian Tucker
David Harper
Abstract
The spaces that surveillance produces can be thought of as ambiguous, entailing elements that are ethereal yet material, geographical yet trans-geographical. Contemporary surveillance systems form numerous connections that involve multiple times, spaces, and bodies. Owing to their ubiquity, normalization, and yet clandestine characteristics, they seem to produce an almost unnoticed aspect of everyday life. The impacts, then, of contemporary surveillance systems appear to be particularly experienced on the margins of consciousness. Thus we find that an empirical analysis of this realm of experience is possible but requires one to look for such things as disruption, disfluency, and hesitation in the text of speech acts rather than clear representation. Through empirical analysis of narratives concerning everyday experiences of living with contemporary surveillance systems, this paper focuses on their possible affective impacts. In turn, we find it more fitting to think about the so-called “surveillance society” in terms of producing “atmospheres” rather than “cultures or assemblages,” and “affects” rather than “emotions.” © 2013, SAGE Publications. All rights reserved.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Oct 10, 2013 |
Publication Date | Dec 1, 2013 |
Deposit Date | Feb 7, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 7, 2023 |
Journal | Theory & Psychology |
Print ISSN | 0959-3543 |
Electronic ISSN | 1461-7447 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 23 |
Issue | 6 |
Pages | 716-731 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354313496604 |
Keywords | History and Philosophy of Science; General Psychology; affect; assemblage; atmosphere; emotion; surveillance |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10336851 |
Publisher URL | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0959354313496604 |
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354313496604
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354313496604
The final published version is available here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0959354313496604
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