This essay examines the Super Bowl and the smart city as conjoined spectacles. A focused case study on Super Bowl LIII and its staging in Atlanta, Georgia in 2019 allows us to investigate how the use of cutting-edge smart technologies, including cameras, sensors, artificial intelligence, image recognition, and data collection techniques to secure Mercedes Benz stadium naturalizes a broader anticipatory logic of state and corporate intervention, often evoked in the name of public safety and terrorism-prevention. Together the spectacles of sport and smart technologies gloss over systemic inequality and legitimize security infrastructures as well as related ideas that social problems such as a lack of affordable housing, police brutality, and environmental degradation are best addressed through technological solutions. Foregrounding the conjoined spectacles of the smart city and Super Bowl problematizes seemingly necessary security processes and social relations among people, events, technologies, and cities, inviting further research and discussions necessary for strengthening critical interventions and theorizing in these areas.

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“智能超级碗”的联体眼镜

本文将超级碗和智慧城市视作联结的眼镜。关于超级碗LIII及其在2019年在佐治亚州亚特兰大的演出的重点案例研究使我们能够研究如何使用尖端智能技术（包括摄像头，传感器，人工智能，图像识别和数据收集技术）来保护梅赛德斯·奔驰体育馆采用了国家和公司干预的更广泛的预期逻辑，通常以公共安全和预防恐怖主义的名义唤起人们的注意。体育和智能技术的共同作用掩盖了系统性的不平等，并使安全基础设施合法化，并提出了相关想法，认为通过技术解决方案可以最好地解决诸如缺乏经济适用房，警察残暴和环境恶化等社会问题。