From electronic
ankle monitors and predictive-policing algorithms to workplace
surveillance systems, technologies originally developed for policing
and prisons have rapidly expanded into nonjuridical domains,
including hospitals, schools, banking, social services, shopping
malls, and digital life. Rooted in the logics of racial disparity and
subjugation, these purportedly unbiased technologies not only extend
prison spaces into the public sphere but also deepen racial
hierarchies and engender new systems for social control. The
contributors to Captivating Technology examine how carceral
technologies are being deployed to classify and coerce specific
populations and whether these innovations can be resisted and
reimagined for more liberatory ends. Moving from traditional sites of
imprisonment to the arenas of everyday life being reshaped by
carceral technoscience, this volume culminates in a sustained focus
on justice-oriented approaches to science and technology that blends
historical, speculative, and biographical methods to envision new
futures made possible.
Contributors. Ruha
Benjamin, Troy Duster, Ron Eglash, Nettrice Gaskins, Anthony Ryan
Hatch, Andrea Miller, Alondra Nelson, Tamara K. Nopper, Christopher
Perreira, Winifred R. Poster, Dorothy E. Roberts, Lorna Roth, Britt
Rusert, R. Joshua Scannell, Mitali Thakor, Madison Van Oort
