The contributors to Captivating Technology 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.
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Discriminatory Design, Liberating Imagination
- Part I. Carceral Techniques from Plantation to Prison
- 1) Naturalizing Coercion: The Tuskegee Experiments and the Laboratory Life of the Plantation
- 2) Consumed by Disease: Medical Archives, Latino Fictions, and Carceral Health Imaginaries
- 3) Billions Served: Prison Food Regimes, Nutritional Punishment, and Gastronomical Resistance
- 4) Shadows of War, Traces of Policing: The Weaponization of Space and the Sensible in Preemption
- 5) This Is Not Minority Report: Predictive Policing and Population Racism
- Part II. Surveillance Systems from Facebook to Fast Fashion
- 6) Racialized Surveillance in the Digital Service Economy
- 7) Digital Character in “The Scored Society”: FICO, Social Networks, and Competing Measurements of Creditworthiness
- 8) Deception by Design: Digital Skin, Racial Matter, and the New Policing of Child Sexual Exploitation
- 9) Employing the Carceral Imaginary: An Ethnography of Worker Surveillance in the Retail Industry
- Part III. Retooling Liberation from Abolitionists to Afrofuturists
- 10) Anti-Racist Technoscience: A Generative Tradition
- 11) Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation across the African Diaspora and Global South
- 12) Making Skin Visible through Liberatory Design
- 13) Scratch a Theory, You Find a Biography
- 14) Reimagining Race, Resistance, and Technoscience
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index