ABSTRACT
This chapter anatomises the camera operator gaze, dissecting some of projective and speculative dimensions. Kevin Walby draws attention in the epigraph to the importance of watcher-watched intersectionalities and interrelationalities. Its great scholars have typically conceived CCTV circuitries as socio-material manifestations of a neoliberal agenda that strives cleanse the city of nonconformist pollutants. circuitries require sensorial capital for disturbance sensing and they need tacit knowledge of behavioural dynamics for formulating assessments and making risk-based decisions. The ideas of French cultural populist Michel de Certeau become pertinent and irradiate insight, specifically the distinction draws between strategies ruling and tactics of desistance. CCTV systems, public-private security grounds men, radio transmitters, exceptional by-laws, bomb-proof litter bins, fences and intelligence databases are each enrolled in managing the order of urbanism. The initial appeal of voyeuristic stimulation steadily dissipates as one is swiftly assimilated into labour process routines and corresponding feelings disenchantment. It acts as a point of mediation for the co-production behavioral repertories and interpretive renditions.
