Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781478030034 |
| ISBN10: | 1478030038 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 248 pages |
| Size: | 229x152 mm |
| Weight: | 445 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 25 illustrations |
| 683 |
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The Cybernetic Border
Drones, Technology, and Intrusion
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date of Publication: 1 March 2024
Number of Volumes: Trade Paperback
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Short description:
Iván Chaar López argues that the United States uses a combination of drone, surveillance, and informational technologies to protect the US-Mexico border in ways that mark border crossers as racialized others that must be policed.
Long description:
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.
“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.”
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Toward a Theory of the Border Technopolitical Regime 1
1. Scripting the Frontier: Drone Intruders and the Racial Politics of Unmanning 29
2. Automating Boundaries: Information as a Regime of Border Control 59
3. Platforms of Enmity and the Consolidation of the Networked Information Regime 94
4. Technoaesthetics of Dissent in the Age of the Cybernetic Border 129
Epilogue. The Unbearable Endurance of Data Technopolitics and Enmity 164
Notes 173
Bibliography 199
Index 227
Introduction. Toward a Theory of the Border Technopolitical Regime 1
1. Scripting the Frontier: Drone Intruders and the Racial Politics of Unmanning 29
2. Automating Boundaries: Information as a Regime of Border Control 59
3. Platforms of Enmity and the Consolidation of the Networked Information Regime 94
4. Technoaesthetics of Dissent in the Age of the Cybernetic Border 129
Epilogue. The Unbearable Endurance of Data Technopolitics and Enmity 164
Notes 173
Bibliography 199
Index 227
