A Bit More Granularity for a Cybernetics of Judaism and Thirdness
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There’s an important critique of Israel that I’ve seen circulating for a while and has been detailed in several books (which I haven’t yet read)—it’s a critique I think I would agree with but treat as exactly the opposite of a critique. Here it is: Israel, due to its “supervisory” relation to the Palestinians has been a pioneer in surveillance and policing technologies that are then distributed globally for governance purposes. Israel, then, is at the center of the new surveillance and data-driven (like facial recognition) forms of governance or, if you like, “repression.” This argument, for example, is what lies behind what otherwise might seem the bizarre claim that the IDF trains American police forces—there is mostly likely a lot to this, especially if one considers that if you sell military equipment, you probably have to include in the sale demos and training. I don’t know for sure, and I don’t know who does know, but I would not be at all surprised to find that Israeli intelligence from the Middle East and beyond plays a critical role in global intelligence gathering networks. And since much of this is due to the Israeli state’s confrontational relation to much of the region it becomes very easy to take the next logical step and say that these conflicts are kept in place precisely in order to maintain Israel’s edge in such governance technology. (This was written before the recent barrage of missiles from Iran intercepted by Israel with some help from its friends but I think it’s easy enough to read that event in these terms.)
A Bit More Granularity for a Cybernetics of Judaism and Thirdness
A Bit More Granularity for a Cybernetics of…
A Bit More Granularity for a Cybernetics of Judaism and Thirdness
There’s an important critique of Israel that I’ve seen circulating for a while and has been detailed in several books (which I haven’t yet read)—it’s a critique I think I would agree with but treat as exactly the opposite of a critique. Here it is: Israel, due to its “supervisory” relation to the Palestinians has been a pioneer in surveillance and policing technologies that are then distributed globally for governance purposes. Israel, then, is at the center of the new surveillance and data-driven (like facial recognition) forms of governance or, if you like, “repression.” This argument, for example, is what lies behind what otherwise might seem the bizarre claim that the IDF trains American police forces—there is mostly likely a lot to this, especially if one considers that if you sell military equipment, you probably have to include in the sale demos and training. I don’t know for sure, and I don’t know who does know, but I would not be at all surprised to find that Israeli intelligence from the Middle East and beyond plays a critical role in global intelligence gathering networks. And since much of this is due to the Israeli state’s confrontational relation to much of the region it becomes very easy to take the next logical step and say that these conflicts are kept in place precisely in order to maintain Israel’s edge in such governance technology. (This was written before the recent barrage of missiles from Iran intercepted by Israel with some help from its friends but I think it’s easy enough to read that event in these terms.)