Biometrics - Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics

Informationen zum Autor Joseph Pugliese is Associate Professor in the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University. Klappentext Biometric technologies, such as finger- or facial-scan, are being deployed across a variety of social contexts in order to facilitate and guarantee identity verification and authentication. In the post-9/11 world, biometric technologies have experienced an extraordinary period of growth as concerns about security and screening have increased. This book analyses biometric systems in terms of the application of biopolitical power - corporate, military and governmental - on the human body. It deploys cultural theory in examining the manner in which biometric technologies constitute the body as a target of surveillance and as a data-information object. The book thereby provides a comprehensive overview and critical analysis of both the local and global ramifications of biometric technologies. Zusammenfassung Biometric technologies, such as finger- or facial-scan, are being deployed across a variety of social contexts in order to facilitate and guarantee identity verification and authentication. This book critically analyses these technologies in terms of the application of biopolitical power – corporate, military and governmental – on the human body. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Biopolitics of Biometrics 1. A Genealogy of Biometric Technologies 2. The Biometrics of Infrastructural Whiteness 3. "Identity Dominance": Biometrics, Biosurveillance, Terrorism and War 4. Identity Fraud and Imposture: Biometrics, the Metaphysics of Presence and the Alleged Liveness of the "Live" Evidentiary Body 5. Neurotechnologies of Truth: Brain Fingerprinting’s Neurognomics and No Lie MRI’s Digital Phrenology. Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Pugliese, Joseph (Macquarie University Pugliese, Pugliese Joseph
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.07.2010
• EAN: 9780415874878
• ISBN: 978-0-415-87487-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History, Cultural Studies, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, biotechnology, Humanities, Biology, life sciences, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Criminal justice law