Introduction: Toward a Theory of the Border Technopolitical Regime
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Published:February 2024
The introduction theorizes the cybernetic border as a technopolitical regime, defined as the historical entities involved in governing the material boundaries of imperial and national formations. The cybernetic border enacts epistemological and procedural relations invested in information and the making of territorialized sovereignties. More concretely, the cybernetic border is made through and makes possible relations between information and racial formation; information infrastructures in border enforcement work to make bodies differentially legible. Information is fundamentally a boundary-making enterprise without which geopolitical borders could not exist. This introduction sets the methodological frames for the rest of the book. It opens the black box of border enforcement through a discussion of interdisciplinary scholarship from US history, Latina/o studies, science and technology studies, and digital studies.
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