Atanasoski / Vora Surrogate Humanity

Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0445-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Atanasoski, Neda

Vora, Kalindi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.