Surrogate Humanity
Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures
1st Edition
Published on 28. February 2019
256 pages
978-1-4780-0445-5 (ISBN)
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Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora trace the ways in which robots, artificial intelligence, and other technologies serve as surrogates for human workers within a labor system that is entrenched in and reinforces racial capitalism and patriarchy.
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Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures
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Surrogate Humanity
Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures
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Neda Atanasoski is Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity.
Kalindi Vora is Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of California, Davis, and author of Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor.
Kalindi Vora is Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of California, Davis, and author of Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: The Surrogate Human Effects of Technoliberalism 1
1. Technoliberalism and Automation: Racial Imaginaries of a Postlabor World 27
2. Sharing, Collaboration, and the Commons in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Appropriative Techniques of Technoliberal Capitalism 54
3. Automation and the Invisible Service Function: Toward an "Artificial Artificial Intelligence" 87
4. The Surrogate Human Affect: The Racial Programming of Robot Emotion 108
5. Machine Autonomy and the Unmanned Spacetime of Technoliberal Warfare 134
6. Killer Robots: Feeling Human in the Field of War 163
Epilogue: On Technoliberal Desire, Or Why There Is No Such Thing as a Feminist A1 188
Notes 197
Bibliography 225
Index 233
Introduction: The Surrogate Human Effects of Technoliberalism 1
1. Technoliberalism and Automation: Racial Imaginaries of a Postlabor World 27
2. Sharing, Collaboration, and the Commons in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Appropriative Techniques of Technoliberal Capitalism 54
3. Automation and the Invisible Service Function: Toward an "Artificial Artificial Intelligence" 87
4. The Surrogate Human Affect: The Racial Programming of Robot Emotion 108
5. Machine Autonomy and the Unmanned Spacetime of Technoliberal Warfare 134
6. Killer Robots: Feeling Human in the Field of War 163
Epilogue: On Technoliberal Desire, Or Why There Is No Such Thing as a Feminist A1 188
Notes 197
Bibliography 225
Index 233
