Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life
ISBN: 9781478004493
Platform/Publisher: e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection / Duke University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: chapter
Subjects: Science and Technology Studies; Cultural Studies / Surveillance Studies; African American Studies and Black Diaspora;

The contributors to Captivating Technology examine how carceral technologies such as electronic ankle monitors and predictive-policing algorithms are being deployed to classify and coerce specific populations and whether these innovations can be appropriated and reimagined for more liberatory ends.

Ruha Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and the author of People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier .

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