... were especially subject. These proceedings reveal the regularity of surveillance and violence aimed at freedwomen’s bodies and their sexuality, as it was differently practiced by Christian missionaries and by the black men with whom they were intimate. Black women’s bodies were continually under duress...

... Chapter 1 considers the Panopticon (1786) and the plan of the slave ship Brooks (1789) for what these two pieces of architecture disclose about surveillance, race, and the production of knowledge. This chapter explores black feminist theorizing of surveillance and the operation of disciplinary...

... Beginning with a discussion of an 1863 carte de visite of Wilson Chinn, a branded slave, chapter 3 examines early applications of biometric surveillance and draws a link between contemporary biometric information technology and transatlantic slavery. The diary of English planter Thomas...

... States, people often contrast face-to-face animal–human relations on small farms with the alienated relations they attribute to the “modern” bureaucratic oversight that prevails on factory farms. Yet even the most high-tech surveillance schemes can generate their own forms of intimacy: techno-intimacies...