Popular Culture, Populism and the Figure of the ‘Criminal’ On the Rising Popular Support of Outlaw Bikers and Anti-Establishment Resentment

Kuldova, Tereza

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“…The clubs may have a point, even if we may have little sympathy for them, when they reiterate: first they target us and then everyone else, it is everybody's civil liberties that are at stake here. And while they have a point here, they use this point for what it is worth: as I have shown in detail elsewhere, they skillfully position themselves both as victims and as justice warriors and civil rights defenders in order to recruit supporters, gain new members and mobilize anti-establishment resentment to their advantage (Kuldova 2019b(Kuldova , 2019c. In many places, especially in marginalized localities hit by neoliberal restructuring of society, they are succeeding at that.…”

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“…Their heavily mediated crimes merge smoothly with their intimidating aesthetics and pop-cultural representations, their reputation and their 'criminal capital' (Sandberg & Shammas 2015); together they create the perfect public enemy: transnational, 'barbarian', ruthless, driven by honour and greed -or at least this is how the threat they represent is presented to the public (Kuldova 2019c;Kuldova & Quinn 2018). The clubs are precisely one of the threats we are meant to fear; as such, they are instrumental to the widespread politics of fear, or else the 'decision makers' promotion and use of audience beliefs and assumptions about danger, risk, and fear, to achieve certain goals' (Altheide 2006: 415).…”

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Imposter Paranoia in the Age of Intelligent Surveillance

Kuldova

2020

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Artificial intelligence, deep learning and big data analytics are viewed as the technologies of the future, capable of delivering expert intelligence decisions, risk assessments and predictions within milliseconds. In a world of fakes, they promise to deliver ‘hard facts’ and data-driven ‘truth’, but their solutions resurrect ideologies of purity, embrace bogus science reminiscent of the likes of anthropometry, and create a deeply paranoid world where the Other is increasingly perceived either as a threat or as a potential imposter, or both. Social sorting in the age of intelligent surveillance acquires a whole new meaning. This article explores the possible effects of algorithmic governance on society through a critical analysis of the figure of the imposter in the age of intelligent surveillance. It links a critical analysis of new technologies of surveillance, policing and border control, to the extreme ethnographic example of paranoia within outlaw motorcycle clubs – organizations that are heavily targeted by new and old modes of policing and surveillance, while themselves increasingly embracing the very same logic and technologies themselves. With profound consequences. The article shows how in the quest for power, order, profit, and control, we are sacrificing critical reason and risk becoming as a society not unlike the paranoid criminal organizations.

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