George C Grinnell

The Social Life of Biometrics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Biometrics is a technology of identification that associates physical features with a legal identity, yet as a mode of determining one truth, it creates many more that mediate how individuals exist. The Social Life of Biometrics examines human experiences of biometrics and considers their histories, effects, and futures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 4g
• ISBN-13: 9781978809079
• ISBN-10: 1978809077
• Artikelnr.: 58040390

Autorenporträt

GEORGE C. GRINNELL is an associate professor of English and Cultural studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
1          Biometric Encounters
2          The Social Life of Biometrics
3          The Domains of Biometric Thought
4          On Method
5          A Genealogy of Biometrics
6          Thinking in the Wake of Biometric Thought
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
About the Author