China has installed about 40,000 high-definition surveillance cameras in the western region of Xinjiang days before the one-year anniversary of the country's worst ethnic violence in decades.
"Security" cameras is of course a term which has embedded within it a certain value judgment, one that accepts authority's efforts to promote the politics of fear to the benefit of the daddy-state. Surveillance camera is a more neutral phrase. I suppose the ideological counterpoint to "security camera" would be "spy camera".
"Security" cameras is of course a term which has embedded within it a certain value judgment, one that accepts authority's efforts to promote the politics of fear to the benefit of the daddy-state. Surveillance camera is a more neutral phrase. I suppose the ideological counterpoint to "security camera" would be "spy camera".
July 3, 2010 @ 7:52 pm