The Spring 2025 edition of Asylum magazine is out now.
Asylum 32.1 is a special issue on surveillance, guest edited by Stop Oxevision.
Stop Oxevision is a survivor-led group campaigning against the use of Oxevision, a video-based surveillance technology which is being used in some psychiatric hospitals.
You can read their editorial here.
This issue contains articles, artwork and poetry about Oxevision; as well as broader issues relating to surveillance; and a few other general articles and news items.
All the articles that specifically relate to Oxevision will be freely available to read on the Stop Oxevision website
Contents
Stop Oxevision(De)humanising people in psychiatric inpatient settings – Alexis Quinn
Poem: Oxevision Eyes – Marcus Ten Low
Just in Case: Schrödinger’s cat, OCD and self-surveillance – Hat Porter
Being Watched in a Halfway Home: Reflections of a researcher – Neha Jain
Staff controlled surveillance is not safety – Anon
The rise of CCTV surveillance in India – Sonia Soans
Reflections on my experience in a mother and baby unit – Adeline
Poems by Adeline McCann and Sophina Mariette
The DWP – A retraumatisation machine – Nicky Richards and Danny Taggart
They’re behind you’ (but they haven’t got your back) – Alex Dunedin
Prevent and the surveillance state – Hil Aked
Poem: Oxehealth alert – Rianna Lee
Chronicle of a death foretold, and denounced, in the capital of Brazil – Pedro Antunes da Costa
Poem: Little Black King – Mase Okor
Poems by AS, Chris Bird and Liam Starkey
The Crystal Prison: An atomisation haibun – Liam Starkey
Poem: Divided States of Terror – Vendela Löfbom
Artwork – AnnaLou
Erosion of Involvement – TO Walker
News and Tributes
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