• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Captivating Technology : Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life
  • Contributor: Benjamin, Ruha [HerausgeberIn]
  • imprint: Durham: Duke University Press, [2019]
    [Online-Ausgabe]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (416 p); 44 illustrations
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9781478004493
  • ISBN: 9781478004493
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  • Keywords: Electronic surveillance Social aspects United States ; Prisons United States ; Privacy, Right of United States ; Racial profiling in law enforcement United States ; Discrimination in criminal justice administration United States ; African Americans Social conditions 21st century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)
  • Type of reproduction: [Online-Ausgabe]
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  • Footnote: In English
    Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
  • Description: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1) Naturalizing Coercion -- 2) Consumed by Disease -- 3) Billions Served -- 4) Shadows of War, Traces of Policing -- 5) This Is Not Minority Report -- 6) Racialized Surveillance in the Digital Service Economy -- 7) Digital Character in “The Scored Society” -- 8) Deception by Design -- 9) Employing the Carceral Imaginary -- 10) Anti-Racist Technoscience -- 11) Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation across the African Diaspora and Global South -- 12) Making Skin Visible through Liberatory Design -- 13) Scratch a Theory, You Find a Biography -- 14) Reimagining Race, Resistance, and Technoscience -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

    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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