In this episode we present a talk given by former Weizenbaum fellow Mareile Kaufmann on the topic of “Hacking as a practice of disputing online surveillance”. Her talk draws attention to hacking practices that interrogate the diverse faces of online surveillance. Instead of portraying hacking as a simple counterculture she seeks to complicate dichotomies of power vs. resistance, online vs. offline and looks at the back-and-forth negotiation character of hacking practices.
Dienstag, 11. Juni 2019 14:00-16:00 Uhr
Weizenbaum-Institut, Raum A104-A105
Veranstaltungswebsite | Podcast
Mareile Kaufmann will first introduce current debates about hackers as interrogators of surveillance. Instead of portraying hacking as a simple counterculture she seeks to complicate dichotomies of power vs. resistance, online vs. offline, and technological system vs. social practice. Based on qualitative interviews she introduces the diverse sometimes ambiguous hacking practices that question online surveillance. She will then develop the concept of dispute as capturing exactly these multiplicities. The small, but constitutive dynamics of disputing online surveillance not only create political momentum but call for a rethinking of the totality of surveillance metaphors used today. The talk is part of a larger project that explores dataveillance and answers to dataveillance.