We kindly invite you to a lecture by Dr. Marko Andrejevic, Professor at the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, entitled “Granular Biopolitics: Biometrics, Surveillance and Automated Governance”, which will be held as part of Tuesday Meetings on Monday, 23 June 2025, at 11 am, in the library of the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana.

This presentation considers the link between facial recognition technology and the securitization of circulation. it considers the ways in which forms of individual level tracking borrowed from the virtual world carry over into the built environment.

New forms of “em-bordering” create sources of “friction” that biometric identification and verification promise to address. The border “thickens” from an edge to an enclosure within which the machine legible face enables automated forms of response at the level of the individual. The result is that the modification of the lived and informational environment becomes increasingly customized, resulting in more granular forms of environmental control.