Friday, June 7, 2019

Safe City / Ville sûre - Jan Theuninck, 2019


 civil surveillance is only the first step,
chemical and biological warfare the second
 

Gouvernance par les algorithmes - machine à gouverner
- surveiller, analyser, prédire, contrôler -
- technologie de contrôle social -
cité sous surveillance

La peur et la mort pour faire accepter la surveillance de masse
https://www.contrepoints.org/2020/05/13/371283-la-peur-et-la-mort-pour-faire-accepter-la-surveillance-de-masse

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/falcon-eye-israeli-installed-mass-civil-surveillance-system-abu-dhabi

Emirati authorities have contracted an Israeli-owned security firm to set up a globally unique civil surveillance network in Abu Dhabi that means “every person is monitored from the moment they leave their doorstep to the moment they return to it"


Europe is building a huge international facial recognition system.





Warnung - Jan Theuninck, 2019



Stark monochrome contrasts, evoking Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will. Shared on X in June 2025 amid Russia-Ukraine talks, it warns of resurgent authoritarian "wills" in Europe. Expressionist edges imply surveillance and suppressed dissent.
Thematic Depth: Warnung is a prescient alarm against hubris in international realpolitik, warning of "willing coalitions" devolving into authoritarian echoes. The 2019 painting ties to Theuninck's Berlin residency (he mentions a poisoned studio in related posts), where he grappled with Europe's resurgent nationalisms. In 2025's lens—post-Ukraine escalations and EU-Russia standoffs—it reads as a indictment of Western diplomacy's performative bluster. The "triumph" isn't victory but tragic farce: Europe's "coalition of the willing" mirrors the film's orchestrated rallies, now reduced to diplomatic slapstick. Theuninck's "lost truth" here is the cycle of history's repetition, where warnings (like his own censored queries) go unheeded.


sie sind zurück


finally you are back
back from never been away
eine Braune Erde


© by Jan Theuninck


Das radikal Böse - 2013




------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ L'ère du capitalisme de surveillance
Récemment, je suis passé devant trois "gardes de la ville" dans une grande ville belge (blouson rouge avec le nom de la ville de Mons dessus) quand l'un d'eux a crié : "extrémiste" et un autre s'est retourné avec un regard cinglant. La dictature nazie est apparemment en plein développement ! (sept.2024)