New and emerging technologies, especially ones that infiltrate intimate spaces, relations, homes, and bodies, are often referred to as creepy in media and political discourses. In Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin introduce a feminist theory of creep that they substantiate through critical engagement with smart homes, smart dust, smart desires, and smart forests toward dreams of feminist futures. Contributing authors further illuminate what is otherwise obscured, assumed, or dismissed in characterizations of technology as creepy or creeping. Considering diverse technologies such as border surveillance and China’s credit system to sexcams and home assistants, the volume’s essays and artworks demonstrate that the potentials and pitfalls of artificial intelligence and digital and robotic technologies cannot be assessed through binaries of seeing/being seen, privacy/surveillance, or harmful/useful. Together, their multifaceted and multimodal approach transcends such binaries, accounting for technological relations that exceed sight to include touch, presence, trust, and diverse modes of collectivity. As such, this volume develops creep as a feminist analytic and creative mode on par with technology’s complex entanglement with intimate, local, and global politics.
Contributors. Neda Atanasoski, Katherine Bennett, Iván Chaar López, Sushmita Chatterjee, Hayri Dortdivanlioglu, Sanaz Haghani, Jacob Hagelberg, Jennifer Hamilton, Antonia Hernández, Marjan Khatibi, Tamara Kneese, Erin McElroy, Vernelle A. A. Noel, Jessica Olivares, Nassim Parvin, Beth Semel, Renee Shelby, Tanja Wiehn
- Cover
- Contents
- Prologue
- Acknowledgments
- Interview with ChatGPT
- Introduction: Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin
- 1. Maintenance Play / Antonia Hernández
- Artist Contribution: The Embodied Self / Marjan Khatibi
- Interlude: Smart Dust / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin
- 2. Uncivil Technoscience: Anti-immigration and Citizen Science in Boundary Making / Iván Chaar López
- 3. Hesitancy, Solidarity, and Whiteness: The Limits and Possibilities of Rape-Reporting Apps / Renee Shelby
- 4. Undoing Landlord Technologies: Beyond the Propertied Logics of the Pandemic Past and Present / Erin Mcelroy
- Artist contribution: Thousand Dreams of Yamur / Hayri Dortdivanlioglu
- Interlude: Smart Homes / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin
- 5. Reading the Room: Messy Contradictions in the Datafied Home / Tanja Wiehn
- 6. Surveillance Vigilantes: Property, Porch Pirates, and Paranoia on Nextdoor / Jessica L. Olivares
- 7. Alexa, Disability, and the Politics of Things Not Apprehended / Jennifer A. Hamilton
- Artist Contribution: Masks, Mirrors, Light and Shadow / Vernelle A. A. Noel
- Interlude: Smart Desires / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin
- 8. Tracking for Two: Surveillance and Self-Care in Pregnancy Apps / Tamara Kneese
- 9. “So Creepy It Must Be True!”: Techno-Orientalism, Technonationalism, and the Social Credit Imaginary / Jacob Hagelberg
- 10. Resistant Resonances: Vocal Biomarkers, Transductive Labor, and the Politics of Things Not Heard / Beth Semel
- Artist Contribution: Street Smarts / Katherine Bennett
- Interlude: Smart Forests / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin
- 11. Animal-Vegetal-Technology: Creeping Categories / Sushmita Chatterjee
- Artist Contribution: Close Your Eyes / Sanaz Haghani
- Epilogue: Dreaming Feminist Futures / Neda Atanasoski And Nassim Parvin
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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