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The ideology of the New Man that fuels the new industrial revolution, the so-called Fourth Revolution based on information and communication technology, is a new promise for universal freedom and happiness. As other earlier utopian promises, it intends to forcibly shape man and society, in order to acquire the much-waited redemption from the current unsatisfactory and degraded state. This time, by accompanying the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the social engineering is intertwined with the full transformation of the Man, through successfully overpassing Nature and Culture. Mixing man and machine, improving biology and totally controlling society represents the final leap forward of the behaviorist psychology and natural science, putting into practice their slogan that all we are is the result of the external stimuli, that everything is constructed. Confronted with such a radical proposal for reshaping Nature and Culture, one could rely on the benefits of moderate pessimism. This is a necessary safeguard in face of new destructive utopia that swept the world in the last decades.

To say plainly that frenemyship or frenmity represent the theoretical and practical foundations of the present work may sound overly eccentric and ambitious. And yet, we feel the necessity for lenses other than the dichotomous ontology of friendship vs. enmity. Instead, we propose an ontology without ontology to capture the moment of radical undecidability which accounts for the haunting histories of counterfactual thinking and the immanent reversibility of dominant signifiers and the meanings annexed. Terrorism and mass surveillance further practically illustrate the striking similarity between apparent opposites, turning the us vs. them paradigm into the febrility of all the subjectivities involved.

The article focuses on examining self-surveillance practices facilitated by mobile applications and connected objects, particularly within the context of Quantified Self practices. Topics include the analysis of issues raised by these practices, and through empirical studies, such as interviews and the examination of online platforms and Quantified Self devices, gestures and screen performances that characterize self-measurement practices.

The article focuses on investigating the shifts in clinical surveillance performed by family members in psychiatric settings, examining the gestures and captures identified through a case study within digital spaces. Topics include the observation of these operations within specific relational dynamics, along with the associated issues such as the blurred boundaries between private and public, instrumentalization of personal knowledge, and people's participation.

The article focuses on the exploration of various gestures in haptic interfaces, categorizing them into surveillance of others, self-surveillance, and authorization of self-surveillance. Topics include a pragmatic examination of screen gestures within the framework of visibility, recording, and trace, addressing the challenges and implications of digital surveillance.

The article focuses on exploring the tension toward immediacy within a media genealogy, particularly in the cinematographic reuse of audiovisual materials initially broadcast on live-streaming platforms. Topics include the examination of how cinema reveals the "opacity of transparency" and the extent to which the logic of capture disrupts the performance of real-time surveillance and sousveillance, while perpetuating a shareveillance logic.

The article focuses on examining augmented reality filters (ARFs) using pragmatic cognitive semiotics, emphasizing the user's face production for identity and the algorithm's face extraction for surveillance. Topics include augmented reality, face filters, face recognition, soft biometrics, sociosemiotics, cognitive semiotics, and self-identity and identification, highlighting the need for new theoretical tools to understand the infrastructural and non-visual dynamics of surveillance.

The article focuses on digital surveillance, specifically delving into the analysis of digital rating features on exchange platforms. Topics include the examination of the interplay between screen gestures and performative intentions, highlighting how these rating mechanisms function as tools of power that shape consent and contribute to the construction of surveillance dynamics.

The article focuses on the emergence of surveillance as a distinct culture in contemporary societies, intricately tied to digital advancements. It explores the evolving economy of visibility, delving into the complexities of screen gestures and performances that centralize the concepts of capture and "making visible" within social and political discourse. Topics include the examination of surveillance culture, surveillance dynamics, and an analysis of screen gestures and performances.

The article focuses on the examination of a surveillance paradigm termed 'conversational,' specifically in the context of online interactions. Topics discussed include an innovative mapping of monitoring incorporating synoptics, surveillability zones, and exploration of the transitional and gestural nature of conversational surveillance, encompassing both visible actions on screens and activities monitorable in public spaces beyond online platforms.

Introduction: A public health emergency of international concern, COVID-19 is an acute respiratory disease responsible in eight months of approximately 843,158 deaths worldwide, including 29,425 deaths in Africa. The objective was to describe the COVID-19 cases in the health district of Commune III of Bamako. Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study of COVID-19 surveillance data from March 26 to August 27, 2020. Our variables were extracted from the surveillance database and analyzed on Epi-Info 7.2. Frequencies, rates and proportions were calculated. Results: A positivity rate of 14.86% identified 126 confirmed cases out of an 848 notified suspect. The median age of confirmed cases was 34 years with a minimum of 8 months and a maximum of 93 years. The sex ratio was 2.7 males to females. Civil servants accounted for 32.54% of the positive cases. All the health subdistricts have recorded positive cases. The lethality was 7.94% affecting those over 65 years old. Among asymptomatic people 10.75% were confirmed positive for COVID-19. Conclusion: Our study suggests that young males were more likely to be infected with COVID-19. We recommend systematic screening of all contacts and involvement of the community in surveillance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the formal intermediality relationship between the videogame Remember Me, and the novel Les furtifs, by Alain Damasio. The two fictions work on the same configuration of ecumenal relations (that is to say the technical and symbolic relations which unite an individual to his environment and to others) - the same inhabiting - according to their own media specificities and a homologous tensioning of dystopian and eutopian discourse. This gives rise to a critique of contemporary inhabiting within an algorithmic society punctuated by the surveillance and presence of social enclaves, as well as an alternative inhabiting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An interview with Alex Türk, president of the national commission of computer science and freedoms, is presented. When asked about the reasons for the increase of personal data exchange at an international level, he answered that it was first linked to technological progress. Further topics include the problems of such a change in terms of the protection of privacy, and the theme of the surveillance of individuals.

An introduction to the issue is presented in which the editors analyze the increasing information sharing of personal data at an international level, reflect on the forms of contemporary government via worrying, and discuss the fight against terrorism.