Book ID: CBB025120161

Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures (2019)

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Atanasoski, Neda (Author)
Vora, Kalindi (Author)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 256
Language: English

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.

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Review Dion N. Farquhar (2022) Review of "Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures". Science, Technology and Human Values (pp. 815-832). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Mason, Mike
Harsh, Matthew
Rachel Adams
J. Jesse Ramirez
Katherine Chandler
Jenny Kennedy
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Artificial intelligence
Neoliberalism
Capitalism
Automata; robotics; cyborgs
Technology and politics
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
20th century
Places
United States
South Africa
Dar Es Salaam
Uganda
Kenya
Russia
Institutions
Centro Nacional de las Artes
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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