Producing "Enemy Intelligence": Information Infrastructure and the Smart City in Northwest China

IF 0.6 4区 管理学 Q1 HISTORY Information & Culture Pub Date : 2022-06-11 DOI:10.7560/ic57205
Darren Byler
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abstract:Infrastructure power announces the priorities of a state: who and what is authorized to move and act, whose lives and what materials have significance. In the colonial context of the Uyghur region in Northwest China, surveillance systems—checkpoints, cameras, digital forensic tools, and nearly sixty thousand low-level "grid workers"—build forms of infrastructure power that make hidden or resistant populations appear legible, decoded, and editable as "enemy intelligence." Drawing on a recently obtained internal police database of thousands of Chinese-language digital files, ethnographic observations, and interviews with Muslims who recently fled from China to Kazakhstan, this article argues that in this location at the frontier of the neoliberal and illiberal East, a smart city functions in part as a neo-Taylorist assembly line that employs an army of grid workers to produce Muslim enemies and non-Muslim friends.
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制造“敌方情报”:信息基础设施与西北智慧城市
抽象:基础设施权力宣布了一个国家的优先事项:谁和什么被授权行动,谁的生活和什么材料有意义。在中国西北维吾尔族地区的殖民背景下,监控系统——检查站、摄像头、数字取证工具和近6万名低级别的“网格工作者”——构建了各种形式的基础设施力量,使隐藏或抵抗的人群看起来像“敌方情报”一样清晰、解码和可编辑。“根据最近获得的警方内部数据库,其中包括数千份中文数字文件、民族志观察结果,以及对最近从中国逃到哈萨克斯坦的穆斯林的采访,这篇文章认为,在这个新自由主义和不自由的东方前沿的地方,一座智能城市在一定程度上就像一条新泰勒主义的装配线,雇佣了一支网格工人大军产生穆斯林敌人和非穆斯林朋友。
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