02-10-2011, 05:12 PM
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After 9/11, the NYPD surrounded Lower Manhattan's civic center with enhanced security architecture commonly referred to as the 'Ring of Steel'.
With its local and global reach, the zone is a signature public space of our time: encrypted, hardened.
Our exposition subjects the Ring of Steel to its own trial by jury. We propose new pathways to interrogate the bias against civic-mindedness revealed by command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance procedures and technologies.
This is critical for those called to the civic center for jury duty -- especially from communities underrepresented in the jury pool, who might be intimidated by security theater even before they face examination about their impartiality during a jury trial.
research: New York VOIR DIRE: Interrogating the Juridical City State of Exception
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"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"