Out of Control!

19-22 November 2009, Southern Germany

European security politics of the last twenty years has increased
the potency of social and state control in a prodigious manner. New
technologies, legislations, techniques and doctrines were established
in the middle of the judicial, police and military apparatuses. The
forces of control are merging, while the fronts of struggle are
multiplicated.

Conflicts did not miss of course. From popular neighbourhoods to
video surveillance, “border management” and "e-borders“, databases,
control of telecommunication, new DNA or
biometric technologies, satellites and flying cameras, blocking of
websites, repression of militants, migrants, “crowd control” at summit
protests or alternative cultures as the free parties, the hold of state
control stretched.