June 1, 2024

How State Surveillance Was Fought

In this month’s edition of Le Monde diplomatique, I have an article in French tracing the history of struggles against state surveillance in the United States in the sixties and seventies. Abstract Based on a longer study published earlier this month as a chapter, this article offers a historical perspective on resistance to state surveillance in the United States. It highlights strategies of resistance, but also transformations in the …

October 15, 2023

New Edition: Counter-History of the Internet

I’m really glad to announced a revised and updated French edition of Counter-History of the Internet: From the 15th Century to Today, published by Agone, an independent publisher based in Marseille.1 The book is adapted from my PhD in Political Studies at EHESS and offers a foucaldian reinterpretation of Jürgen Habermas’ history of the public sphere. Publisher’s presentation “The state control of public sphere — …