ABSTRACT
The proficiency of technological solutionism by authoritarian as well as democratic governments across the globe proposes questions of post-human dystopia and creates a ‘Pandemic Big Brother’ situation. The ongoing Covid-19 crisis has turned the prevalent public-health emergency into a public-order issue with accepted justifications for surveillance. History warns us that once such infrastructures and competencies are in place, governments rarely have the political will to roll them back. Changes that in the pre-coronavirus era would have generated years of debate and dissent seem to be possible overnight now. In an attempt to examine hegemonic practices within the global information society, this chapter seeks to re-imagine the democratic political order with inverse surveillance or sousveillance.
