[spectre] Essay: Steam Powered Census by Graham Harwood

[Heather Corcoran]

Steam Powered Census
By Graham Harwood

The census stands at the very beginning of the biopolitical process of 
converting people into populations. In the wake of the UK's 2011 Census, 
Graham Harwood considers its double-edged provision of a technique of 
control and manifold potential of an ‘equalising gaze'.

This text was commissioned by FACT & is published by Mute online at:

http://www.metamute.org/en/articles/steam_powered_census











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