![Surrogate Humanity](/jacket/500x500/9781478003175.jpg)
Surrogate Humanity Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures - Perverse Modernities
Hardback (29 Mar 2019)
- $121.35
Includes delivery to the United States
10+ copies available online - Usually dispatched within two working days
Other formats/editions
Check stock
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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781478003175 |
Publisher: | Duke University Press Books |
Imprint: | Duke University Press |
Pub date: | 29 Mar 2019 |
DEWEY: | 338.0640112 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 256 |
Weight: | 454g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 18mm |