지배양식의 국면 변화와 빅데이터 감시의 형성

This paper traces the structural and corresponding relations between power and surveillance. It investigates how state power has shifted the modes of dominance to the more invisible way in Korea, along with using the new technological conditions. Especially, this study observes a recent mode of the historical and material conditions for the purpose of the state control of the citizens’ biodata. Under a life form itself becoming data and conditioned by ‘unstructured’ big data, the study concludes that we need to secure the rights of data bodies beyond limiting the governmental desire of access to individual biodata. This paper observes the ‘disciplinary society’ operated by the military junta, relying on the accumulation of citizens’ data in the mid-70s and a national computerization project in the late 80s. Subsequently, the state’s desire of ‘a society of control’ became realized along with the building of smart society based on the national broadband networks since the mid-90s. With regard to a widespread of surveillant power in Korean society, ‘big data’-driven surveillant algorithm can be expected as an emergent means in order to mediate power.