Latest activity from the ERC SAMCOM Project

Greetings readers. On behalf of the ERC SAMCOM project (grant no. 947867), I’d like to take the opportunity to share some of the work we have been doing over the past year. We are a team of anthropologists in the Department of Digital Humanities at KCL, who are currently investigating the moral complexities of digital …

New ERC Project Exploring the Intersection between Surveillance and Morality

‘Smart cities’, ‘employee assistance programmes’, the pervasive language of ‘security’ – the implementation of surveillance technologies has consistently been framed in relation to moral ideas. This ambiguity has been observed by surveillance scholars for many years, David Lyon once describing the alternating ends of ‘care’ and ‘control’ which these technologies serve. Yet the study of …