Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, And Liberatory Imagination In Everyday Life

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From electronic ankle monitors and predictive-policing algorithms to workplace surveillance systems, technologies originally developed for policing and prisons have rapidly expanded into nonjuridical 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 methods to envision new futures made possible. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Foreword......Page 12 Acknowledgments......Page 16 Introduction: Discriminatory Design, Liberating Imagination......Page 20 Part I. Carceral Techniques from Plantation to Prison......Page 42 1) Naturalizing Coercion: The Tuskegee Experiments and the Laboratory Life of the Plantation......Page 44 2) Consumed by Disease: Medical Archives, Latino Fictions, and Carceral Health Imaginaries......Page 69 3) Billions Served: Prison Food Regimes, Nutritional Punishment, and Gastronomical Resistance......Page 86 4) Shadows of War, Traces of Policing: The Weaponization of Space and the Sensible in Preemption......Page 104 5) This Is Not Minority Report: Predictive Policing and Population Racism......Page 126 Part II. Surveillance Systems from Facebook to Fast Fashion......Page 150 6) Racialized Surveillance in the Digital Service Economy......Page 152 7) Digital Character in “The Scored Society”: FICO, Social Networks, and Competing Measurements of Creditworthiness......Page 189 8) Deception by Design: Digital Skin, Racial Matter, and the New Policing of Child Sexual Exploitation......Page 207 9) Employing the Carceral Imaginary: An Ethnography of Worker Surveillance in the Retail Industry......Page 228 Part III. Retooling Liberation from Abolitionists to Afrofuturists......Page 244 10) Anti-Racist Technoscience: A Generative Tradition......Page 246 11) Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation across the African Diaspora and Global South......Page 271 12) Making Skin Visible through Liberatory Design......Page 294 13) Scratch a Theory, You Find a Biography......Page 327 14) Reimagining Race, Resistance, and Technoscience......Page 347 Bibliography......Page 368 Contributors......Page 408 C......Page 412 G......Page 413 N......Page 414 S......Page 415 Z......Page 416