Description: In Surrogate Humanity Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora trace the ways in which robots, artificial intelligence, and other technologies serve as surrogates for human workers within a labor system entrenched in racial capitalism and patriarchy. Analyzing myriad technologies, from sex robots and military drones to sharing-economy platforms, Atanasoski and Vora show how liberal structures of antiblackness, settler colonialism, and patriarchy are fundamental to human---machine interactions, as well as the very definition of the human. While these new technologies and engineering projects promise a revolutionary new future, they replicate and reinforce racialized and gendered ideas about devalued work, exploitation, dispossession, and capitalist accumulation. Yet, even as engineers design robots to be more perfect versions of the human-more rational killers, more efficient workers, and tireless companions-the potential exists to develop alternative modes of engineering and technological development in ways that refuse the racial and colonial logics that maintain social hierarchies and inequality.
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EAN: 9781478003861
UPC: 9781478003861
ISBN: 9781478003861
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Book Title: Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics
Item Length: 22.9 cm
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: Engineering & Technology, Science, History
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 363 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Neda Atanasoski, Kalindi Vora
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
