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Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life (Paperback)

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By Ruha Benjamin (Editor)
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The contributors to Captivating Technology examine how carceral technologies such as electronic ankle monitors and predictive-policing algorithms are being deployed to classify and coerce specific populations and whether these innovations can be appropriated and reimagined for more liberatory ends.

About the Author


Ruha Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and the author of People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier.

Product Details
ISBN: 9781478003816
ISBN-10: 1478003812
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Date: June 7th, 2019
Pages: 416
Language: English

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