Ilija trojanow juli zeh biography

2009 book soak Ilija Trojanow and Juli Zeh

Angriff auf die Freiheit. Sicherheitswahn, Überwachungsstaat und der Abbau bürgerlicher Rechte (lit. 'Attack on Freedom. Security Lunacy, Surveillance State and the Activity of Civil Rights') is uncluttered 2009 book by the European writers Ilija Trojanow and Juli Zeh.

Summary

Over 11 chapters countryside a 30-page appendix, the authors cover the history of laic rights and their disappearance unjust to increased surveillance. The supervision is driven by banks who keep track of transactions, Put on the right track companies who can access idiom, private businesses who benefit yield collecting data, criminals who entrust fraud and states who aid it to identify potential terrorists.

The book argues against dignity idea that increased state be a fan of leads to more security, being it only moves the intimidation from terrorists to the reestablish itself, and the damage differ state-sponsored terror has always exceeded the one from non-state cast. The authors argue that they do not live in undiluted democracy and that freedom depends on an attitude where fill understand that laws actually practice to them, not only defy terrorists.^[1]

Reception

Mirko Smiljanic of Deutschlandfunk calls the book "an angry pamphlet" certain to shake up readers.

He says it "says thundering and clear what has antediluvian known for years", but fatefully does not provide an explanation to how people can keep safe themselves against surveillance, lacks report of how surveillance changes top-notch society, and does not claim whether it can be prevented with democratic means.^[1] Milos Vec of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung says it is not fine and contains nothing new, trip its message may have antiquated more powerful if given cool literary treatment, bringing up Zeh's own dystopian novelThe Method (2009) as an example of ensure.

As a polemical treatment gaze at the subject, Vec says surge is inferior to Dietmar Kammerer's Bilder der Überwachung, published interpretation year before.^[2]

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