David H. Price | American Surveillance State, Dual Use Anthropology, & The Restrict Act
The Higherside Chats
Greg Carlwood
4.7 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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About Today's Guest: David H. Price is a Professor of anthropology at St. Martin's University in Lacey, Washington. He has conducted cultural anthropological and archaeological fieldwork and research in the United States and Palestine, Egypt and Yemen. He is a founding member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists, and a frequent contributor to CounterPunch.
His books include:
* Anthropological Intelligence: The Use and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War.
* Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Persecution of Activist Anthropologists.
* Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology.
* Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State.
* The American Surveillance State: How the U.S. Spies on Dissent.
Get them on his author page.
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| 0:00.0 | The planets popping masters on the shore, they have a plan. |
| 0:17.0 | It's clearly maybe something they'll be on the realm of man. |
| 0:22.0 | Until we've thoroughly tested every last close chest in view. |
| 0:26.0 | Find the more you think you know what you really do. |
| 0:32.0 | Where will we be without THC? |
| 0:36.0 | We know the lion too, it's just don't know what degree. |
| 0:40.0 | Where will we be without THC? |
| 0:45.0 | The eyes that check joy. |
| 0:50.0 | Great car would encompass the need. |
| 0:56.0 | Here we go again, higher side chatters. |
| 1:03.0 | Doing the thing from sunny San Diego, I'm Greg Carlwood. |
| 1:06.0 | And when you reflect on the way America's attitudes have changed about privacy and surveillance over time. |
| 1:11.0 | It might be one of the most radical, all-encompassing cultural shifts we've had in the last 50 years. |
| 1:17.0 | It's a change in attitude that spans all races, classes, and ages of citizens today. |
| 1:23.0 | And I can't help but think it might not be 100% organic. |
| 1:26.0 | Where people were once skeptical of state-sponsored ease dropping, wiretapping, and surveillance. |
| 1:32.0 | Today they stand in line, spend thousands of dollars to maintain, and frequently update devices that would make our great grandfather's roll over in their graves. |
| 1:41.0 | And even though the American Empire has a long history of keeping an eye on ideological rebels, critics, and dissidents. |
| 1:48.0 | Today's citizenry acts so surprised when counter-narrative experts and those with criticisms of power are pushed out of the digital conversation. |
| 1:56.0 | From Hoover's dossiers to the modern-day cell phone ads, surveillance is no stranger to the American Empire. |
| 2:02.0 | But our complete acquiescence certainly seems to be something new. |
| 2:06.0 | Maybe this mass acceptance process started with the Patriot Act and airport processing. |
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