Surrogate Humanity - Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures

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.

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 den Autor / die Autorin

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.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Neda Atanasoski, Neda Vora Atanasoski, Neda/ Vora Atanasoski, Kalindi Vora
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781478003175
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0317-5
• Seiten: 256
• Serien: Perverse Modernities: A Series; Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities: A Series
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Wissenschaft, Technologie und Gesellschaft