{"title":"The Unique Identity Project: Surveillance Society and Democratic Culture in Aravind Adiga’s India","authors":"Jeffrey Clapp","doi":"10.5771/9783956505959-143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956505959-143","url":null,"abstract":"Am 24. August 2017 entschied der Oberste Gerichtshof Indiens, dass die Privatsphäre zu den Grundrechten gehört, die durch die indische Verfassung garantiert werden. Der unmittelbare Anlass für die Entscheidung zum Schutz der Privatsphäre war die rasche Verbreitung von Aadhaar, dem biometrischen Identifizierungssystem, das von der Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), einer gesetzlich festgelegten Behörde, verwaltet wird. Die UIDAI bietet dauerhafte zwölfstellige Identifikationsnummern als zentralen Bestandteil eines Systems, das Bewohnern Indiens eine einzigartige Identität und eine digitale Plattform zur Verfügung stellen soll, sich jederzeit und überall zu authentifizieren. Kritiker haben eingeräumt, dass Aadhaar durch die Erfassung von biographischen, demographischen sowie biometrischen Daten nicht nur gegen Grundrechte verstößt, sondern auch den Weg zu einer ominösen Überwachungsgesellschaft ebnet. Die Urheber und Verteidiger dieses Systems dagegen bestehen darauf, dass Aadhaar offen und egalitär ist. Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Konflikte werden in diesem Aufsatz drei Romane des indischen Schriftstellers Aravind Adiga im Kontext der Neoliberalisierung Indiens behandelt. Obwohl Adiga nicht explizit auf Aadhaar eingeht, möchte ich behaupten, dass Neuerfindung, Neupositionierung – und sogar Neoliberalisierung – demokratischer Konzepte wie Privatsphäre, Empowerment und Inklusion im Mittelpunkt seiner Romane The White Tiger (2008), Last Man in Tower (2011) und Selection Day (2016) stehen. Darüber hinaus stelle ich die These auf, dass Adigas Romane durch „Erneuerungen“ innerhalb einer antimodernistischen literarischen Tradition die laufenden soziotechnischen Innovationen in Indien unterminieren. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956505959-143 Generiert durch IP '54.185.63.223', am 10.12.2021, 06:10:19. Das Erstellen und Weitergeben von Kopien dieses PDFs ist nicht zulässig. Stirner nennt den Einzigen und sagt zugleich: Namen nennen dich nicht; er spricht ihn aus, indem er ihn den Einzigen nennt, und fügt doch hinzu, der Einzige sei nur ein Name; er meint also etwas Anderes, als er sagt . . . Max Stirner, “Recensenten Stirners,” 149 On 24 August 2017, the Supreme Court of India determined that privacy is among the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Indian constitution. This epochal decision, which reversed several previous verdicts, has brought Indian law in line with many national jurisdictions and international rights regimes, including the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which numbers privacy among its “inalienable” rights. In the months and years ahead, this decision will likely have a substantial impact on governance in India. But the immediate occasion of the privacy decision was the rapid expansion of Aadhaar, India’s biometrically-enabled identification and authorization system, which was introduced in 2009. The Aadhaar system is administered by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), a legislativel","PeriodicalId":383688,"journal":{"name":"Narrating Surveillance - Überwachen erzählen","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131595266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resisting Authority: Surveillance in Contemporary American and German Fiction","authors":"Betiel Wasihun","doi":"10.5771/9783956505959-169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956505959-169","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":383688,"journal":{"name":"Narrating Surveillance - Überwachen erzählen","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123696213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Totalitarianism by Consent: Orwell, Huxley, and Capitalism in the Stage of Corporate Surveillance","authors":"C. Bode","doi":"10.5771/9783956505959-21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956505959-21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":383688,"journal":{"name":"Narrating Surveillance - Überwachen erzählen","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115549878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vom ‚Big Brother‘ zum ,Big Other‘: Verhaltenskontrolle im Überwachungskapitalismus am Beispiel des Spielfilms Ex Machina","authors":"Jörg Metelmann","doi":"10.5771/9783956505959-129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956505959-129","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses the relation between surveillance and narration, under-stood as regimes of control, in the larger framework of culture (media, visuali-ty), economy (capitalism) and technology (big data, robotics, AI). The point of departure is a paradigm shift from “Big Brother” to (the) “Big Other” which transforms a visual regime into an omniscient one that is not based on images alone. In this new constellation, Big Brother serves as visualization and narrati-zation for the algorithmic data network that escapes our perception. To discuss these observations, the text relies on Alex Garland’s feature film Ex Machina (2015) that incorporates both regimes of control into its story of a threat to mankind.","PeriodicalId":383688,"journal":{"name":"Narrating Surveillance - Überwachen erzählen","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122721727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surveillance in Jennifer Egan’s Novels of the Information Age","authors":"J. Straub","doi":"10.5771/9783956505959-111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956505959-111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":383688,"journal":{"name":"Narrating Surveillance - Überwachen erzählen","volume":"33 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120874923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“And from this moment on, we know nothing” – Ellipsis, Epistemology, and the Anti-Detective Novel","authors":"Florian Zappe","doi":"10.5771/9783956505959-211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956505959-211","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":383688,"journal":{"name":"Narrating Surveillance - Überwachen erzählen","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125092523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}