Atanasoski Neda Atanasoski

Surrogate Humanity (eBook, PDF)

Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478004455
• Artikelnr.: 56228054

Autorenporträt

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 Women's Studies at the University of California, Davis, and author of Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor.

Inhaltsangabe

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