Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-388) and index.
Contents:
Introduction. Reimagining race, resistance, and technoscience / a conversation with Dorothy Roberts. Naturalizing coercion : the Tuskegee experiments and the laboratory life of the plantation / Britt Rusert -- Consumed by disease : medical archives, Latino fictions, and carceral health imaginaries / Christopher Perreira -- Billions served : prison food regimes, nutritional punishment, and gastronomical resistance / Anthony Ryan Hatch -- Shadows of war, traces of policing : the weaponization of space and the sensible in preemption / Andrea Miller -- This is not Minority Report : predictive policing and population racism / R. Joshua Scannell -- Racialized surveillance in the digital service economy / Winifred R. Poster -- Digital character in "The scored society" : FICO, social networks, and competing measurements of creditworthiness / Tamara K. Nopper -- Deception by design : digital skin, racial matter, and the new policing of child sexual exploitation / Mitali Thakor -- Employing the carceral imaginary : an ethnography of worker surveillance in the retail industry / Madison Van Oort -- Anti-racist technoscience : a generative tradition / Ron Eglash -- Techno-vernacular creativity and innovation across the African diaspora and Global South / Nettrice R. Gaskins -- Making skin visible through liberatory design / Lorna Roth -- Scratch a theory, you find a biography / a conversation with Troy Duster -- Reimagining race, resistance, and technoscience / a conversation with Dorothy Roberts.
Summary:
From electronic ankle monitors and predictive-policing algorithms to workplace surveillance systems, technologies originally developed for policing and prisons have rapidly expanded into non-juridical domains, including hospitals, schools, banking, social services, shopping malls, and digital life. Rooted in the logics of racial disparity and subjugation, these purportedly unbiased technologies not only extend prison spaces into the public sphere but also deepen racial hierarchies and engender new systems for social control. The contributors to 'Captivating Technology' examine how carceral technologies are being deployed to classify and coerce specific populations and whether these innovations can be resisted and reimagined for more liberatory ends. Moving from traditional sites of imprisonment to the arenas of everyday life being reshaped by carceral technoscience, this volume culminates in a sustained focus on justice-oriented approaches to science and technology that blends historical, speculative, and biographical approaches to envision new futures made possible.
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