Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life

by Ruha Benjamin (Editor)

PDF, 2019

Publication

Duke University Press Books (2019), 416 pages

ISBN

9781478004493

Notes

CONTENTS
Introduction: Discriminatory Design, Liberating Imagination / Ruha Benjamin

PART I - Carceral Techniques from Plantation to Prison
1. Naturalizing Coercion : The Tuskegee Experiments and the Laboratory Life of the Plantation / Britt Rusert
2. Consumed by Disease : Medical Archives, Latino Fictions, and Carceral Health Imaginaries / Christopher Perreira
3. Billions Served : Prison Food Regimes, Nutritional Punishment, and Gastronomical Resistance / Anthony Ryan Hatch
4. Shadows of War, Traces of Policing : The Weaponization of Space and the Sensible in Preemption / Andrea Miller
5. This Is Not Minority Report : Predictive Policing and Population Racism / R. Joshua Scannell

PART II - Surveillance Systems from Facebook to Fast Fashion
- 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

PART III - Retooling Liberation from Abolitionists to Afrofuturists
- 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

Bibliography
Contributors
Index

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