Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures by N

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Surrogate Humanity by Neda Atanasoski, Kalindi Vora 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 that is entrenched in and reinforces racial capitalism and patriarchy. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher 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. Author Biography Neda Atanasoski is Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity. Kalindi Vora is Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Womens Studies at the University of California, Davis, and author of Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor. Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: The Surrogate Human Effects of Technoliberalism 1 1. Technoliberalism and Automation: Racial Imaginaries of a Postlabor World 27 2. Sharing, Collaboration, and the Commons in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Appropriative Techniques of Technoliberal Capitalism 54 3. Automation and the Invisible Service Function: Toward an "Artificial Artificial Intelligence" 87 4. The Surrogate Human Affect: The Racial Programming of Robot Emotion 108 5. Machine Autonomy and the Unmanned Spacetime of Technoliberal Warfare 134 6. Killer Robots: Feeling Human in the Field of War 163 Epilogue: On Technoliberal Desire, Or Why There Is No Such Thing as a Feminist A1 188 Notes 197 Bibliography 225 Index 233 Review "By bringing a much more nuanced reading of race, gender, and difference to science and technology studies, Atanasoski and Vora provoke us to think more deeply about how our imagined technological futures always already serve to reproduce our most problematic pasts—and what forms or processes can disrupt and transcend these. This is a vital project that should speak to us all." -- Barbara Herr Harthorn * American Ethnologist *"Surrogate Humanity...confirm[s] that the human is a contingent concept.... The authors also spotlight how contemporary discourses concerning automation, in particular, alternately promise liberation and threaten debasement while eliding the roles of racialized and colonial subjects in producing the technologies and materials on which automation relies." -- Rebecah Pulsifer * Womens Studies Quarterly *"...Surrogate Humanity usefully provides examples from literary, artistic, engineering, and scientific projects that critique or outright refuse technoliberalisms frame for recognizing full humanity. These rebellious acts of imagination show us that the potential exists to develop alternative designs and trajectories for technological development ... in ways that prioritize equity and justice." -- Anita Lam * Surveillance & Society *"Surrogate Humanity is a fascinating and important book that provides a much-needed counter narrative to prevailing approaches in science and technology studies.... Complemented by their mode of collaborative writing as a radical feminist act, the book is thus certain to inspire scholars and activists alike...." -- Sibille Merz * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Atanasoski and Voras major intervention in the automation debate is their argument that automation imaginaries are shaped by liberal humanism and the racial hierarchies embedded in it.... One strength of Surrogate Humanity is the range of technological discourses, objects, and processes in which the authors elucidate the logics of technoliberalism." -- J. Jesse Ramírez * American Quarterly *"Atanasoski andVora write with thoughtful scholarship and careful word selection.... [Surrogate Humanity] also provides a generative grounding in relevant science and technology studies and race theory literatures.... [I]t should be required reading in any sociology course on colonization and empire." -- Laurel Smith-Doerr * Contemporary Sociology *"Surrogate Humanity questions what it means to be human at all, and is an incredibly useful analysis for anyone interested in shifting from thinking about robots within a tool-using paradigm, to an ethics paradigm." -- Lindsay Balfour * Cultural Studies * Review Quote "... Surrogate Humanity usefully provides examples from literary, artistic, engineering, and scientific projects that critique or outright refuse technoliberalisms frame for recognizing full humanity. These rebellious acts of imagination show us that the potential exists to develop alternative designs and trajectories for technological development ... in ways that prioritize equity and justice." Details ISBN1478003170 Author Kalindi Vora Pages 256 Publisher Duke University Press Series Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe Year 2019 ISBN-10 1478003170 ISBN-13 9781478003175 Format Hardcover Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States DEWEY 338.064 Illustrations 30 illustrations Publication Date 2019-03-29 Short Title Surrogate Humanity Language English UK Release Date 2019-03-29 AU Release Date 2019-03-29 NZ Release Date 2019-03-29 US Release Date 2019-03-29 Translator Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings Birth 1962 Death 1997 Affiliation Cnrs, France Position Reader in International Commercial Law Qualifications M.D., Ph.D. Alternative 9781478003861 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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