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„Granular Biopolitics and the Recession of the Social“
This presentation draws on research from a project devoted to considering the social implications of the widespread deployment of automated, real-time mass identification via facial recognition (and other biometric technologies). It considers the relationship between the multiplication and „thickening“ of borders and the promise of „frictionlessness“ deployed by biometric technologies. Building on the literature on biopower, it considers how biometrics reconfigure the relationship between individual and population in ways that have implications for strategies of surveillance, governance, and control. It concludes with a consideration of the ways in which automated recognition combined with automated social sorting contributes to what might be described as the „recession of the social“ – that is, the implications of the misrecognition of societal interdependence facilitated by social sorting and the customization of culture.

Mark Andrejevic is a Professor in the School of Media, Film, and Journalism at Monash University where he leads the Automated Society Working Group. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society. He is the author, most recently, of Automated Media and, Face Recognition (with Neil Selwyn).