... 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...

... “Music as a Technology of Surveillance” centers on the transactions between platforms and an assortment of advertisers, data brokers, and other third parties. Especially among stand-alone services, the need to develop alternative means of extracting value from customers has encouraged aggressive...

... Increasingly, governments and platforms are investing in automation and artificial intelligence to govern sexual content at scale. As sex work environments become more heavily surveilled, this chapter explores the phenomenon of “automated whorephobia”: the coding of sex work stigma...

...Biometric Technologies as Surveillance Assemblages U.S. media outlets created a supportive domestic context of reception for surveillance technologies adopted in the post-9/11 era by portraying the United States’ enemies in the war on terror as the “opaque” bodies of reference from which...

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... and dark sousveillance. Dark sousveillance is a reading praxis and method of examining the racial logics of surveillance by questioning how certain surveillance technologies installed during slavery to track blackness as property anticipate surveillance practices of the contemporary moment. An overview...

... Screening by full-body and biometric scanners provides US citizens and others traveling within the United States and select other nations the opportunity to distinguish themselves from would-be terrorists. Surveillance technologies render passengers’ three-dimensional bodies as flat visual...

...-intimacies that produce “close” knowledge of animals from a technologically mediated distance. To understand how, this chapter examines the deployment of surveillance technologies during the attempt to establish a National Animal Identification System in the United States. Rather than trying to get...

... that produce “close” knowledge of animals from a technologically mediated distance. To understand how, this chapter examines the deployment of surveillance technologies during the attempt to establish a National Animal Identification System in the United States. Rather than trying to get reacquainted...

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...The Visual and Surveillance<subtitle>Bodies on Display</subtitle> In this chapter, the author examines the ways that surveillance technologies work to discipline different bodies paying particular attention to race and gender. The author focuses on the Shafia murders in Canada as iconized...

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... In this chapter, the author examines the ways that surveillance technologies work to discipline different bodies paying particular attention to race and gender. The author focuses on the Shafia murders in Canada as iconized in the mainstream media as honor killings and argues...

... Interdisciplinary artist David Rokeby’s landmark work, Very Nervous System (1986–2004), uses video surveillance technology, synthesizers, a sound system, computers, and image-processing software designed by Rokeby to translate movement into music and/or sound. Through an intuitive process...

... U.S. media outlets created a supportive domestic context of reception for surveillance technologies adopted in the post-9/11 era by portraying the United States’ enemies in the war on terror as the “opaque” bodies of reference from which “transparent” passenger-suspects are encouraged...

... in creating the image? And how does racialization figure in this setup? The chapter recuperates feminist scholarship on practices of looking; while some surveillance technologies may be new, the forms of oppression reproduced by them are not. In the popular press, Cyrus, constructed as white, is situated...

... contemporary developments in new technologies and the intensification of surveillance since the 1980s, tracing the history of surveillance back to organized forms of state control such as settler colonialism, the management of women's reproductive autonomy, the regulation of sexuality and the institutionalized...

... on water drops with humanitarian groups and interviews with Tohono O’odham and Hia-Ced O'odham activists to think about the desert as sacred, a meaning at odds with the profane world of metal beams, roadside checkpoints, and surveillance technologies. The desert, both positive and negative sacred, exceeds...

... David Rokeby’s landmark work, Very Nervous System (1986–2004), uses video surveillance technology, synthesizers, a sound system, computers, and image-processing software designed by Rokeby to translate movement into music and/or sound. Through an intuitive process of corporeal improvisation...