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Vingerafdrukken enzo
Escorza - 18.01.2004 00:20
Een interessant statement van de filosoof Giorgio Agamben naar aanleiding van het Amerikaanse besluit om vingerafdrukken af te nemen van alle buitenlandse bezoekers.
"The newspapers leave no doubt: from now on whoever wants to go to the
United States with a visa will be put on file and will have to leave their
fingerprints when they enter the country. Personally, I have no intention
of submitting myself to such procedures and that's why I didn't wait to
cancel the course I was supposed to teach at New York University in March."
De auteur gaat daarna verder met het weergeven van een indruk waaraan ik
mij ook niet kan onttrekken:
"There has been an attempt the last few years to convince us to accept as the humane and normal dimensions of our existence, practices of control that had always been properly considered inhumane and exceptional."
(...)
All the same, it wouldn't be possible to cross certain thresholds in the
control and manipulation of bodies without entering a new bio-political
era, without going one step further in what Michel Foucault called the
progressive animalization of man which is established through the most
sophisticated techniques."
Bruce Sterling drukte dit angstige voorgevoel ooit uit met de woorden: "Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human
being. And we can do most anything to rats."
De technocraten die ons besturen moeten voor de zekerheid in dit
huiveringwekkende licht gezien worden.
Voor de hele tekst (verschenen in Le Monde) zie:  http://truthout.org/docs_04/011304H.shtml
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