Self(ie)-governance: Technologies of intimate surveillance in India under COVID-19/
Datta, Ayona
Self(ie)-governance: Technologies of intimate surveillance in India under COVID-19/ - sage 2020 - vol 10, issue 2, 2020 : (234-237 p.).
This commentary examines the role of the ‘selfie’ as central to the teleological management of the COVID-19 crisis in India. It suggests that the incorporation of the self(ie) within the technologies of quarantine apps is a simulacrum of intimate surveillance that seeks to experiment in the present in order to extend its reach into the visual governance of intimate domesticity in the future.
Self(ie)-governance: Technologies of intimate surveillance in India under COVID-19/ - sage 2020 - vol 10, issue 2, 2020 : (234-237 p.).
This commentary examines the role of the ‘selfie’ as central to the teleological management of the COVID-19 crisis in India. It suggests that the incorporation of the self(ie) within the technologies of quarantine apps is a simulacrum of intimate surveillance that seeks to experiment in the present in order to extend its reach into the visual governance of intimate domesticity in the future.