Surrogate Humanity

Surrogate Humanity Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures - Perverse Modernities

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Publisher's Synopsis

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:
DEWEY: 338.0640112
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 454g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 18mm