Data scoring creates a ban-opticon that excludes rather than disciplines

Evidence

Big Data is leading to the emergence of a new digital class society. Human beings assigned to the ‘waste’ category belong to the lowest class. People with a bad score are denied credit. Thus, the panopticon has been joined by a ‘ban-opticon’. The panopticon kept watch over prisoners of the system who were incarcerated. The ban-opticon, on the other hand, is a dispositive that identifies persons who stand outside the system or are hostile to it, and excludes them. The classical panopticon served to discipline. In contrast, the ban-opticon ensures the system’s security and efficiency. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 151

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ban-opticon to contrast with Bentham’s panopticon.
• XREF: Extends the panopticon analysis Han and Foucault scholars use elsewhere; resonates with Deleuze’s control-society shift from discipline to modulation. — connects to: Digital exclusion operates through a ban-opticon that expels rather than disciplines — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 151; Privately controlled data extraction produces social classifications that entrench inequality — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 443

Related

• Digital exclusion operates through a ban-opticon that expels rather than disciplines (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Digital exclusion operates through a ban-opticon that expels rather than disciplines #corroborates (0.95) — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 151
• Privately controlled data extraction produces social classifications that entrench inequality #expands (0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 443