“PAPERS, PLEASE!”: A MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY OF IDENTITY DOCUMENTS
This paper argues identity documents (ID) prefigure wearables as artefacts connected with archives. As participants with human practices, they constitute an apparatus that engenders sensibilities about the proper way to participate in society, through the use of socio-technical systems. The use of...
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This paper argues identity documents (ID) prefigure wearables as artefacts connected with archives. As participants with human practices, they constitute an apparatus that engenders sensibilities about the proper way to participate in society, through the use of socio-technical systems. The use of these artefacts is necessary to make individuals legible to the state. Refusing them renders us insensible. Through a media archaeology of the history and use of IDs through modern Europe, an understanding emerges of the agential properties of artefacts and their essential role in establishing a social imaginary of the state.
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| spelling | doaj-art-eb4e1397addb4fcbab545388ee8bf8802025-08-20T03:58:14ZdeuBabeș-Bolyai UniversityStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia2065-94072017-12-0162310.24193/subbphil.2017.3.02“PAPERS, PLEASE!”: A MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY OF IDENTITY DOCUMENTSNathanael BASSETT0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6194-3040PhD candidate, University of Illinois, Chicago. Email: nbasse2@uic.edu. This paper argues identity documents (ID) prefigure wearables as artefacts connected with archives. As participants with human practices, they constitute an apparatus that engenders sensibilities about the proper way to participate in society, through the use of socio-technical systems. The use of these artefacts is necessary to make individuals legible to the state. Refusing them renders us insensible. Through a media archaeology of the history and use of IDs through modern Europe, an understanding emerges of the agential properties of artefacts and their essential role in establishing a social imaginary of the state. https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/3265media archaeology, wearables, security, border control, identity documents, dispositifs |
| spellingShingle | Nathanael BASSETT “PAPERS, PLEASE!”: A MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY OF IDENTITY DOCUMENTS Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia media archaeology, wearables, security, border control, identity documents, dispositifs |
| title | “PAPERS, PLEASE!”: A MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY OF IDENTITY DOCUMENTS |
| title_full | “PAPERS, PLEASE!”: A MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY OF IDENTITY DOCUMENTS |
| title_fullStr | “PAPERS, PLEASE!”: A MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY OF IDENTITY DOCUMENTS |
| title_full_unstemmed | “PAPERS, PLEASE!”: A MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY OF IDENTITY DOCUMENTS |
| title_short | “PAPERS, PLEASE!”: A MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY OF IDENTITY DOCUMENTS |
| title_sort | papers please a media archaeology of identity documents |
| topic | media archaeology, wearables, security, border control, identity documents, dispositifs |
| url | https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/3265 |
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