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Journal Article
Social Text (2005) 23 (2 (83)): 35–53.
Published: 01 June 2005
...Kelly A. Gates Duke University Press 2005 Biometrics and Post-9/11 Technostalgia
Of all the dramatic images to emerge in the hours and days following Kelly A. Gates
the September 11 attacks, one of the most haunting was a frame from...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (2 (83)): np.
Published: 01 June 2005
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Biometrics and Post-9/11 Technostalgia Kelly A. Gates 35
Surveillance in Decolonized Social Space: The Case of Sex
Workers in Bengal Swati Ghosh 55
Resisting Surveillance John Gilliom 71
Global Citizens and Local Powers: Surveillance in Turkey
Çag˘atay Topal 85
From Privacy...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (2 (83)): 21–34.
Published: 01 June 2005
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Along with the territorial ambiguities that the new warfare-as-crime-
fi ghting entails, a new biopolitics is emerging. The criminalization of signifi cant, but
military adversaries has been accompanied by a biometric approach to
intelligence and surveillance. The signifi cance of this change becomes...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (2 (151)): 69–92.
Published: 01 June 2022
... of the biopolitical machine that tracks, capacitates, and decides on their stay in the United States. Applicants are captured by a system for continuous surveillance when applying for DACA, disclosing all biodata while also having to submit to biometrics as first-time applicants and on every renewal date. 20...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 25–30.
Published: 01 March 2018
... by algorithms of migration, net worth, nationality, racialization, gender — all things biometric. Every line of coke mediates concrete world history and affective terrains. Every hope of flight, of escape, is an attempt to flee the stochastics of the noose. And of those without access to the loophole, some...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 37–59.
Published: 01 September 2022
... to the making of global registration systems, and the need to re-center Africa within the history of racial capitalism.” 38 Although Kenya's new biometric ID card ( Huduma Numba ) is not as explicitly racialized, it is informed by historical and structural processes of value differentiation that include...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 1–16.
Published: 01 September 2021
.... The contributions to this issue show how sexology has dissimulated and disaggregated, finding new footings for its logics and tactics in the signal protocols of neoliberal management: urban planning, gentrification, universal design, public health, biometric surveillance, and the datafication of the human...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 73–79.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of liquid or some coke, a passport, a visa, or no papers at all. Those documents themselves isolate particular details about bodies — a face pic, fingerprints, and other biometric data, all presumably residing as well in a far-off database — and ignore others, and they themselves present words and images...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (2 (83)): 1–19.
Published: 01 June 2005
...-blowers. A con-
temporary manifestation of these instabilities can be found in the recent
success story of biometric surveillance and face-recognition industries.
Perhaps more than other pretenders, these folks have cashed in big on the
digital sublime, as Kelly A. Gates shows in her analysis...
Journal Article
Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2014
... in its journey through the occupied territories, the wall
is more in the nature of a fence. This security barrier enters the fngerprints
of whoever touches it into a vast archive of biometric data maintained by
the Israeli state. This technological function places the wall within the same...
Journal Article
Social Text (2023) 41 (3 (156)): 35–55.
Published: 01 September 2023
... “white prototypicality” forms the criteria by which biometric technologies register and track human subjects. 17 Her analysis of common instances of a “failure to enroll,” another name for the lack of recognition, exposes the norms embedded within technology. Other forms of similar failures...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 83–104.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., enabled by a new Hindu nationalism and an American “war on terror” with its global security regime, Sikh males are now being recuperated in new ways: as migrants, as unemployed youth, or as bodies riddled with drugs or cancers. 66 As biometric identity cards and digital surveillance transform policing...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 121–139.
Published: 01 December 2005
... (civilizing teleologies, ori-
entalisms, xenophobia, militarization, border anxieties) and postmodern-
ist eruptions (suicide bombers, biometric surveillance strategies, emergent
corporealities, counterterrorism gone overboard). With its emphases on
bodies, desires...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 97–119.
Published: 01 June 2020
... through consumption. Notably, this mode of consumption also generates vast new stores of biometric data that form part of the flexible apparatus of control societies and the production of dividuals. Roberts’s warning returns us to the question of the search for a neurobiological substrate in Wynter’s...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 57–79.
Published: 01 December 2018
..., for example, reinscribe enslaved Africans’ biometrics as users transfer the racial nomenclature of the time period ( négre , moreno , quadroon ) into the present and encode skin color, hair texture, height, weight, age, and gender in new digital forms, replicating the surveilling actions of slave owners...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (4 (141)): 23–49.
Published: 01 December 2019
... impulse. 26 Rather than containing the specter of the photographic in its aesthetic strategy, Margolles’s oeuvre excavates, beneath the regulatory aspects of the photograph’s biometrics, another order of presencing and other grounds for politico-aesthetic engagement, ones that displace photographic...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 71–97.
Published: 01 March 2023
... for our own financial and biopolitical exploitation, as we pay $100 for a test that further biometrically controls and individuates us. 13. Chun, “Introduction,” 8 . See also Coleman, “Race as Technology.” 14. Here, we want to insist on the de facto entanglement of technology...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (3 (80)): 75–104.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of biometric technologies and
the rising number of hate-motivated assaults and murders complete this
scenario. One observation might be that the model minority status of
South Asians has now been tarnished for some with an association with
Osama bin Laden and other terrorist fi gures, leading to a shift...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (2 (107)): 67–97.
Published: 01 June 2011
...,” to evoke Gilles Deleuze’s term — of free-floating controls, dis-
88 Tawil-Souri ∙ Politics and Materiality of ID Cards in Palestine/Israel
persed and ubiquitous systems of people-tracking, roaming surveillance,
fixing identities through biometric means, and computer...
