Teknolojist Direnişin Düalist Doğası: Cypherpunklar Örneği

Öz

Gözetime karşı koyma, gözetimin doğal bir uzantısıdır. Bir kontrol rejiminin kusursuzlaşması, farklı direniş biçimlerinin ortaya çıkmasını engellemez. Dijital paradigma ile birlikte beliren direniş biçimlerinden biri, çağdaş gözetim rejimine karşı teknolojik araçlar üretme ve geliştirme önceliğini vurgulayan Teknolojist Gözetime Karşı Koyma’dır. Bununla birlikte, bu yaklaşımın merkezinde bir ikilem yer almaktadır. Teknolojist gözetime karşı koyma, merkezi bir özgürleştirici role sahip sarsıcı bir güç olarak önemli ölçüde iyileştirici sonuçlar doğururken, diğer yandan enformasyon rejimindeki iktidar ilişkilerini de pekiştirmiştir. Bu ikilemi anlamak adına bu çalışma, Teknolojist Gözetime Karşı Koyma’nın örnek bir vakası olarak Cypherpunkları incelemektedir. Çalışma, bu topluluğu, Byung-Chul Han tarafından geliştirilen psikopolitikanın buyrukları ve dinamiklerine göre işleyen bir kontrol biçimi olan enformasyon rejimi bağlamında analiz etmektedir. Makale, Teknolojist gözetime karşı koymanın, karşı çıkmaya çalıştığı rejimin ta kendisi olan enformasyon rejiminin içinde zorunlu olarak varlık gösterdiğini ortaya koymaktadır. Bu bağlamda söz konusu eylem; hem ilerici hem gerici, hem sarsıcı hem de pekiştirici niteliğiyle ikili (düalist) bir karaktere sahiptir. Dahası, bu yapısı gereği, karşı koymaya çalıştığı rejim ve onun buyruklarıyla kurduğu iç içelik ölçüsünde, gözetime karşı koymadaki etkililiği de sınırlı kalmaktadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Gözetim
• Teknolojist Direniş
• Gözetime Karşı Koyma
• Enformasyon Rejimi
• Cypherpunks

The Dualist nature of Technologist Resistance: The Case of the Cypherpunks

Öz

Counter-surveillance is a corollary of surveillance. The perfection of a control regime does not preclude different forms of resistance. One form of resistance emerging with the digital paradigm is Technologist Counter-Surveillance, which emphasises the primacy of creating and developing technological tools against the contemporary surveillance regime. Nevertheless, there is a dilemma at the heart of this approach. While being a disturbing force which caused significant ameliorative outcomes with pivotal emancipatory role, technologist counter-surveillance have also reinforced power relations in the information regime. To understand this dilemma, this paper investigated the Cypherpunks as an exemplary case of Technologist Counter-Surveillance. It analysed them in the context of the information regime as a form of control operating according to the imperatives and dynamic of psychopolitics developed by Byung-Chul Han. The paper demonstrates that Technologist counter-surveillance takes place necessarily within the information regime, which is the same regime it tries to counter. It is of a dual character, as both progressive and reactionary; disruptive of and reinforcing. Furthermore, as such, its efficacy in countering surveillance is limited to the extent that it is intimate with the regime it seeks to counter and its imperatives.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Sruveillance
• Counter-Surveillance
• Technologist Resistance
• Information Regime
• Cypherpunks

Teşekkür

I am deeply grateful to Prof. Dr. Pınar Bedirhanoğlu, whose exceptional guidance, support and kindness made this work possible.

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