Book ID: CBB407005585

The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion (2024)

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Iván Chaar-López (Author)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2024
Physical Details: 248
Language: English

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.

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Authors & Contributors
Kim, Richard S. Y.
Galis, Vasilis
González, Roberto J.
Gusterson, Hugh
Hall, R. Cargill
Macfarlane, Daniel
Journals
Science as Culture
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Air Power History
Social Studies of Science
Publishers
New York, City University of
Cornell University Press
University of California Press
Duke University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
McGill-Queen's University Press
Concepts
Surveillance
Military technology
Drones (aircraft)
Technology and government
National security
Aircraft; airplanes
People
McNamara, Robert Strange
Boyd, John Richard
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Modern
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
Europe
Mexico
Canada
European Union
Institutions
United States Air Force (USAF)
United States. Department of Defense
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