Correa, K. (2025, 3-6 September.). Anti-Surveillance Practices, Past and Future. [Conference presentation]. Society for Social Studies of Science, Seattle, WA.
In this session, I presented a zine I had created that linked and updated a 2003 academic article on anti-surveillance practices (Marx, 2003) to modern-era anti-surveillance practices. This zine emerged from work on my qualitative exams, allowing me to pursue a more in-depth analysis of Marx’s 2003 work that I was not able to on my exams. This zine was a mixture of plain text and artwork I had created and photos I had taken at activist events. I purposefully chose a single-page format, allowing the zine to be printed on the front and back of one piece of paper, making it easy to print and distribute. In this zine, I also make a case for a new anti-surveillance practice, or, as Marx writes, a new “tack in the shoe” of the surveillance and government assemblage; I call this practice “building,” as opposed to Marx’s “breaking” technique, and within it I pursue the idea of community building as a generalizable anti-surveillance technique that can support activist work. This zine allowed me to bring together multiple parts of my research, as well as allowed me to engage in a creative method and disseminate my work to a new audience.
Kim Correa 