Surrogate Humanity

Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures

Neda Atanasoski, Kalindi Vora (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0317-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	16.02.2019
Reihe/Serie	Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
Zusatzinfo	30 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4780-0317-0 / 1478003170
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0317-5 / 9781478003175
Zustand	Neuware