Examines the formation of a surveillance state through a close examination of Thomas Jefferson's plantation management techniques and political actions.
With the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the horizon, Melissa Adler leads readers to reexamine the principles and foundations upon which the United States is based. By analyzing Thomas Jefferson's surveillance technologies and practices, including his Farm Book, algorithmic formulas, and land management policies, this book provides a new understanding of the limits to aspirations toward good government, liberty, security, and equality in the United States. In addition to being the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, which famously states that "all men are created equal," many of Jefferson's writings feature the rationalization of the enslavement, displacement, and killing of Black and Indigenous peoples. Adler argues that information architectures are mechanisms by which cultural and political divisions endure, and that close examination of Jefferson's surveillance techniques reveals some of the processes by which problems associated with settler colonialism, racism, and heteropatriarchy have become systemic.
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Surveillance in the Empire of Liberty
Why Thomas Jefferson Matters in Our Information Age
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Surveillance in the Empire of Liberty
Why Thomas Jefferson Matters in Our Information Age
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Land/Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Toward a Theory of Social Categories In-Formation
- Part I: Mastery
- Chapter 2: Designing for Surveillance
- Chapter 3: Patriotism and Paternalism
- Chapter 4: The Intimacy of Encryption
- Part II: Informing
- Chapter 5: Educating to Inform in the Early Republic
- Chapter 6: Delivering the News
- Part III: Datafication
- Chapter 7: The Plantation in the Field of Vision
- Chapter 8: Revolutionary Algorithms
- Chapter 9: Geographic Information Systems
- Coda: Does Jefferson Matter in Our Information Age?
- Bibliography
- Index
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