Captivating Technology
Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life
1st Edition
Published on 7. June 2019
416 pages
978-1-4780-0449-3 (ISBN)
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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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Ruha Benjamin
Captivating Technology
Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life
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06/2019
Duke University Press
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Ruha Benjamin
Captivating Technology
Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life
Book
06/2019
Duke University Press
€37.10
Shipment within 15-20 days
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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.
Content
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
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
