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Pat O'Malley, Honorary Professor, Sydney Law School.

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School of Cultural Inquiry Conference Room, Level 1, A.D. Hope Building (14), The Australian National University

 

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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Mass preventive justice is epitomised by the electronic apparatuses monitoring  traffic speeding and related offending, and in its turn epitomises Deleuze’s diagram of control societies. However, while Deleuze urged attention to the lines of flight and resistance, the resistant practices of the ‘multitude’ of dividuals has not often been explored. This chapter attends to some of the main lines of resistance emergent in the online politics of safety cameras, a politics that takes place in the virtual environment that is a key characteristic of control societies. The analysis of online resistance suggests that some of the principle resources that facilitate mass preventive justice – its deployment of a jurisprudence of risk and safety,  and of money sanctions - are also sites of political vulnerability. Such resistance brings home some dangers of predicting from theories of governance that could otherwise project a technologically determined future for justice. Even so, the potential for such apparatuses of consumer regulation to transform into apparatuses of national security may have opened up unforeseen lines of flight into a preventive justice of rather different character.