Overview

The contributors to Captivating Technology examine how carceral technologies such as electronic ankle monitors and predictive-policing algorithms are being deployed to classify and coerce specific populations and whether these innovations can be appropriated and reimagined for more liberatory ends.

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Author:   Ruha Benjamin
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9781478003236

ISBN 10:   1478003235
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   07 June 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Foreword / Troy Duster  xi Acknowledgments / Ruha Benjamin  xv Part I. Carceral Techniques from Plantation to Prison 1. Naturalizing Coercion: The Tuskegee Experiments and the Laboratory Life of the Plantation / Britt Rusert  25 2. Consumed by Disease: Medical Archives, Latino Fictions, and Carceral Health Imaginaries / Christopher Perreira  50 3. Billions Served: Prison Food Regimes, Nutritional Punishment, and Gastronomical Resistance / Anthony Ryan Hatch  67 4. Shadows of War, Traces of Policing: The Weaponization of Space and the Sensible Preemption / Andrea Miller  85 5. This Is Not Minority Report: Predictive Policing and Population Racism / R. Joshua Scannell  107 Part II. Surveillance Systems from Facebook to Fast Fashion 6. Racialized Surveillance in the Digital Service Economy / Winifred Poster  133 7. Digital Character in ""The Scored Society"": FICO, Social Networks, and the Competing Measurements of Creditworthimess / Tamara K. Nopper  170 8. Deception by Design: Digital Skin, Racial Matter, and the New Policing of Child Sexual Exploitation / Mitali Thakor  188 9. Employing the Carceral Imaginary: An Ethnography of Worker Surveillance in the Retail Industry / Madison Van Oort  209 Part III. Retooling Liberation from Abolitionists to Afrofuturists 10. Anti-Racist Technoscience: A Generative Tradition / Ron Eglash  227 11. Techo-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation across the African Diaspora and Global South / Nettrice R. Gaskins  252 12. Making Skin Visible through Liberatory Design / Lorna Roth  275 13. Scratch a Theory, You Find a Biography: A Conversation with Troy Duster  308 14. Reimagining Race, Resistance, and Technoscience: A Conversation with Dorothy Roberts  328 Bibliography  349 Contributors  389 Index  393"

Reviews

The book comes at a timely moment, contributing to pressing contemporary conversations about predictive algorithms, bias in AI, new modes of surveillance, and the myriad ways our increasingly technologically mediated lives are experienced unequally along lines of race, class, and gender. . . . Captivating Technology offers a meaningful contribution to public and scholarly discussions of technological (in)justice. -- (12/23/2019)

Benjamin presents a rich and original contribution to critical studies of race and technoscience. -- Clara Hick * Ethnic and Racial Studies * The book comes at a timely moment, contributing to pressing contemporary conversations about predictive algorithms, bias in AI, new modes of surveillance, and the myriad ways our increasingly technologically mediated lives are experienced unequally along lines of race, class, and gender. . . . Captivating Technology offers a meaningful contribution to public and scholarly discussions of technological (in)justice. -- Naomi Zucker * Somatosphere *

Author Information

Ruha Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and the author of People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier.

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