作为媒介的监控与“安保主义”——论“监控社会”的安全文化

Surveillance as Media and Securitism:On the Security Culture of Surveillance Society

全世界正在加速进入一个全面监控的社会形态,作为媒介的监控塑造了一种适合监控扩张需要的安全文化理念,即安保主义,从而实现了监控社会的自我再生产。一方面,"作为媒介的监控"放大了无处不在的不安全感,催生了对监控的渴望;另一方面,"作为媒介的监控"又虚构了一个可以通过全面监控来实现的"安全乌托邦",促使人们非但可以忍受被监控而且还享受被监控。然而,要在一个"最不安全的时代"里通过监控来建设一个"最大安全社会",这注定是一个西西弗斯式的悲剧。

The whole world is acceleratedly entering a total surveillance society. The surveillance asmedia has modeled a security culture called securitism , which enables the self reproduction of surveillance so-ciety. On the one hand , it has magnified ubiquitous insecurity , and then produced dep desire to surveil-lance ;on the other hand , it has created a security utopia which seems to be fulfilled by total surveillance , as the result people can not only bear the surveillance but also enjoy surveillance. However , it is doomed to be aSisyphus tragedy to build a maximum security society in a least secure era through total surveillance.