Visibility and Control: Cameras and Certainty in Governing

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: The Image as Evidence -- Introduction: The "I," the Eye, and the Screen -- Notes -- Chapter 1: The History of CCTV in Great Britain and Canada -- Great Britain -- Canada -- Privacy -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Theoretical Elements of Government Surveillance -- Legitimacy -- The Mediatization of Security -- Technology and Uncertainty -- Media -- Duplication -- Distance -- Signal Space -- Referential Space -- The Mechanism -- Notes -- Chapter 3: CCTV and the Court System -- The Canadian Courts -- The British Courts -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Theoretical Elements of CCTV as a Media Format -- The Gaze -- Being Viewed -- Delay -- Autoamputation -- Inversion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Speed Cameras, the Courts, and the Recorded Image as Positive Identification -- Testifying via CCTV -- Notes -- Chapter 6: The Certainty in Images -- Notes -- Part II: The Image as a Component of Governing -- Chapter 7: Governmentality and the CCTV Image -- Reception Leading to Government and Transmission -- Control -- Governmentality -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Visibility and Control -- Control and Society -- Monitoring -- Notes -- Chapter 9: The Performance of Governing -- Conduct -- Presence -- Visibility -- Notes -- Chapter 10: Practices and the Distancing of Government from the Population -- Fragmentation/Representation -- Practices -- Notes -- Chapter 11: Camera Surveillance as an Exercise of Power -- Multitude -- Violence -- Positioning -- Visibility/Invisibility -- Connections -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Films & -- Television Series -- Online Videos -- Court Cases and Legal Texts -- Index -- About the Author.