The Electromagnetic: Border Zone

James Bridle UK

James Bridle is a British writer, artist, publisher and technologist currently based in Athens, Greece. His work covers the intersection of literature, culture and the network. As a journalist and essayist he has written for the Guardian, the White Review, Frieze, WIRED, ICON, Domus, Cabinet, the Atlantic, the New Stateman and many other publications, and between 2011 and 2015 wrote a regular column for the Observer newspaper on publishing and technology.

Abstract: The Electromagnetic Border Zone

As new technologies are deployed along and across Europe's increasingly hardened borders, the construction of identity and citizenship is starting to change. The border becomes a shifting zone of data, while a defensive digital architecture is erected alongside the walls and checkpoints. James Bridle's work explores the electromagnetic border zone as it presents new challenges to mobility and justice, while opening up subversive and emancipatory possibilities.