The main objective of my paper will be to explore the behavioral impact of the surveillance apparatus, not just in terms of consciously available consequences, as the lack of privacy, which, nevertheless, is increasingly difficult to explain, but also as constituting a general behavioral disposition towards mistrust, suspicion and lack of empathy.
I will work out the main difference between private or commercial dimension of surveillance and the governmental one. Thus, we will see that the habitual commercial surveillance of big tech has transformed which, paradoxically, is by large unconceived and unexpressed as such, has eased our disposition to cope with a supervised and hyper-connected social, economic and political environment.
I will emphasize, in this regard, the critical impact of terrorism of the increasing surveillance of communication, while, on the other part, this will be connected to already existing mutations at the social level, dues to the force of attraction and the persistence of a `weak version of truth`, promoted by acceleration of information, notably digital.
Not just today but, seemingly, today more than ever, power is information and information means knowledge. The meaning of information collecting, use and impact (surveillance being, par excellence, such a tool), has to be, in my view, reframed in order to be brought to fruition, in terms of both theoretical significance and ethical inquiry.