Cybernetic Border

Drones, Technology, and Intrusion

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvIván Chaar López

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In The Cybernetic Border, IvÁn Chaar LÓpez argues that the settler US nation requires the production and targeting of a racialized enemy that threatens the empire. The cybernetic border is organized through practices of data capture, storage, processing, circulation, and communication that police bodies and constitute the nation as a bounded, territorial space. Chaar LÓpez historicizes the US government’s use of border enforcement technologies on Mexicans, Arabs, and Muslims from the mid-twentieth century to the present, showing how data systems are presented as solutions to unauthorized border crossing. Contrary to enduring fantasies of the purported neutrality of drones, smart walls, artificial intelligence, and biometric technologies, the cybernetic border represents the consolidation of calculation and automation in the exercise of racialized violence. Chaar LÓpez draws on corporate, military, and government records, promotional documents and films, technical reports, news reporting, surveillance footage, and activist and artist practices. These materials reveal how logics of enmity are embedded into information infrastructures that shape border control and modern sovereignty.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-03-29
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9781478030034

Tillhör följande kategorier

Tillämpad datateknik inom Data och IT
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Migration inom Samhälle och politik

Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Toward a Theory of the Border Technopolitical Regime 11. Scripting the Frontier: Drone Intruders and the Racial Politics of Unmanning 292. Automating Boundaries: Information as a Regime of Border Control 593. Platforms of Enmity and the Consolidation of the Networked Information Regime 944. Technoaesthetics of Dissent in the Age of the Cybernetic Border 129Epilogue. The Unbearable Endurance of Data Technopolitics and Enmity 164Notes 173Bibliography 199Index 227

“The Cybernetic Border is an in-depth and long-overdue interrogation of the complicated history and brutal impacts of America’s evolving technological war against migrants. IvÁn Chaar LÓpez’s book is a must-read for scholars of migration, science and technology studies, and American history that examines the increasingly blurred line between science fiction and reality along the US-Mexico border while giving us a frightening look into the future of global boundary enforcement.” - Jason De León, author of (Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling) “In this important book, IvÁn Chaar LÓpez reveals how surveillance drones, data infrastructures, and other technologies have been employed to transform the US-Mexico border into a cybernetic weapon against racialized intruders. It is a must-read for anyone interested in how technology and data networks are being developed as systems of surveillance and control, especially against racialized communities. Readers will also be interested in the ways in which Chaar LÓpez illuminates the courageous efforts of activists and artists who deploy aesthetic dissent to challenge the technopolitical regime governing the southern border.” - Juan De Lara, author of (Inland Shift: Race, Space, and Capital in Southern California) "The Cybernetic Border is a fantastic work of scholarship that can hopefully draw more borderlands scholars into the world of STS and inspire more STS scholars to engage with the (techno-)politics of borders." - Salem Elzway (Technology and Culture) "As data sharing and surveillance get further embedded in daily operations of both law enforcement agencies and the public, The Cybernetic Border offers a vital history against narratives of neutral and improving technology. . . . While focused on drones and the US-Mexico borderlands, this book is valuable and complementary to all work invested in exposing the sociotechnical arrangements through which government, military, industry, and academic partnerships dictate who and what belongs." - Maggie Woodruff (H-Environment, H-Net Reviews)