{"product_id":"captivating-technology-9781478003816","title":"Captivating Technology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe contributors to \u003ci\u003eCaptivating Technology\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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. . . . \u003ci\u003eCaptivating Technology\u003c\/i\u003e offers a meaningful contribution to public and scholarly discussions of technological (in)justice.\" -- Naomi Zucker * Somatosphere *\u003cbr\u003e\"Benjamin presents a rich and original contribution to critical studies of race and technoscience.\" -- Clara Hick * Ethnic and Racial Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCaptivating Technology\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and deeply creative text that excavates suppressed histories just as much as it works towards building new futures.” -- Susila Gurusami * Surveillance \u0026amp; Society *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCaptivating Technology\u003c\/i\u003e...is an excellent collection that is compelling both in rich individual chapters and in the synthetic whole.... One of the strengths of this collective volume is its deliberate use of literary technologies.” -- Vivette García-Deister and Anne Pollock * BioSocieties *\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eCaptivating Technology\u003c\/i\u003e] is an ideal in action; unfettered by carceral imaginations, scholars can invent different worlds that replace—and not merely, through reform, extend—the discriminatory societies we have made together.” -- David Theodore * Technology and Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword \/ Troy Duster  xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \/ Ruha Benjamin  xv\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Carceral Techniques from Plantation to Prison\u003cbr\u003e 1. Naturalizing Coercion: The Tuskegee Experiments and the Laboratory Life of the Plantation \/ Britt Rusert  25\u003cbr\u003e 2. Consumed by Disease: Medical Archives, Latino Fictions, and Carceral Health Imaginaries \/ Christopher Perreira  50\u003cbr\u003e 3. Billions Served: Prison Food Regimes, Nutritional Punishment, and Gastronomical Resistance \/ Anthony Ryan Hatch  67\u003cbr\u003e 4. Shadows of War, Traces of Policing: The Weaponization of Space and the Sensible Preemption \/ Andrea Miller  85\u003cbr\u003e 5. This Is Not \u003ci\u003eMinority Report\u003c\/i\u003e: Predictive Policing and Population Racism \/ R. Joshua Scannell  107\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Surveillance Systems from Facebook to Fast Fashion\u003cbr\u003e 6. Racialized Surveillance in the Digital Service Economy \/ Winifred Poster  133\u003cbr\u003e 7. Digital Character in \"The Scored Society\": FICO, Social Networks, and the Competing Measurements of Creditworthimess \/ Tamara K. Nopper  170\u003cbr\u003e 8. Deception by Design: Digital Skin, Racial Matter, and the New Policing of Child Sexual Exploitation \/ Mitali Thakor  188\u003cbr\u003e 9. Employing the Carceral Imaginary: An Ethnography of Worker Surveillance in the Retail Industry \/ Madison Van Oort  209\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Retooling Liberation from Abolitionists to Afrofuturists\u003cbr\u003e 10. Anti-Racist Technoscience: A Generative Tradition \/ Ron Eglash  227\u003cbr\u003e 11. Techo-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation across the African Diaspora and Global South \/ Nettrice R. Gaskins  252\u003cbr\u003e 12. Making Skin Visible through Liberatory Design \/ Lorna Roth  275\u003cbr\u003e 13. Scratch a Theory, You Find a Biography: A Conversation with Troy Duster  308\u003cbr\u003e 14. Reimagining Race, Resistance, and Technoscience: A Conversation with Dorothy Roberts  328\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  349\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  389\u003cbr\u003e Index  393","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867284812119,"sku":"9781478003816","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478003816.jpg?v=1722282593","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/captivating-technology-9781478003816","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}