# The Surveillance Enclosure

Attention becomes a prison through a chain of capture, prediction, identity, scoring, automated rule, and self-policing.

- Type: curated historical and symbolic lineage
- Inquiry Domain: power-control

## Path

1. **Attention** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-forces-attention--sfoc-systems-attention-economy`
2. **Attention Economy** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-systems-attention-economy--sfoc-systems-surveillance-capitalism`
3. **Surveillance Capitalism** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-systems-surveillance-capitalism--sfoc-systems-panopticon`
4. **Panopticon** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-systems-panopticon--sfoc-systems-digital-id`
5. **Digital ID** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-systems-digital-id--sfoc-systems-social-credit`
6. **Social Credit** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-systems-social-credit--sfoc-systems-algorithmic-governance`
7. **Algorithmic Governance** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-systems-algorithmic-governance--sfoc-systems-smart-prison`
8. **Smart Prison** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-systems-smart-prison--sfoc-forces-resistance`
9. **Resistance**

## Reading

- Forward: Read as an unfolding sequence in which each threshold creates the problem addressed by the next.
- Reverse: Read as an integration path that traces a present condition back toward its enabling assumptions.
- Diagnostic: Stop where the sequence first feels implausible; that seam names the contested transition.
