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The Soft Cage
Christian Parenti · 初版 2003 年
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“The Soft Cage 探讨了监控的隐秘历史——从昔日美国南部对奴隶的控制，到早期刑事司法的实施、追踪移民，以及现代社会工作中对穷人的严密监控。它还探讨了计算机在构建一个由看似良性的技术所组成的全新型世界中所扮演的角色——例如信用卡、网站“cookies”、电子不停车收费、“data mining”以及机场的虹膜扫描仪。”“随着人们对个人及国家安全的担忧达到历史新高，这一不断扩张的高科技窥阴基础设施正在改变权力的平衡
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一本了解监控技术历史的必读书，从黑奴的“通行证”讲到指纹：Christian Parenti 2003 年写的《The Soft Cage - Surveillance in America: From Slavery to the War on Terror》https://archive.org/details/softcagesurveill0000pare
A book to read on the history of surveillance technology, starting with "pass papers" for slaves to finger prints: The Soft Cage - Surveillance in America: From Slavery to the War on Terror, Christian Parenti, 2003 https://archive.org/details/softcagesurveill0000pare
…落入了一种流传甚广的错误论调，即穷人全是瘾君子或福利女王。Christian Parenti 在他的书《The Soft Cage》中描述美国人对贫困的看法时总结得非常精辟：“在一个否认贫困真正原因（低工资和结构性失业）的社会里，穷人必然会变成一种神秘的研究对象，任人审视、测量、审问和编目，或者…
…into a prevalent and false narrative that persons in poverty are all drug addicts or welfare queens. Christian Parenti really sums it up well when he describes American views on poverty in his book, The Soft Cage: "In a society that denies the true causes of poverty—low wages and structural unemployment—the poor necessarily show up as objects of mystery to be examined, measured, interrogated, and indexed, or…