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_b.L925 2024
100 _aChaar López, Iván - author.
_d1983.
245 _aThe Cybernetic Border :
_bdrones, technology, and intrusion /
_cIván Chaar López
260 _aDurham and London:
_bDuke University Press,
_c2024.
300 _a234 Pages;
_c23 cm.
520 _a"In The Cybernetic Border, Iván Chaar López argues that the settler US nation requires the production and targeting of a racialized enemy that threatens the empire. The cybernetic border is organized through practices of data capture, storage, processing, circulation, and communication that police bodies and constitute the nation as a bounded, territorial space. Chaar López historicizes the US government's use of border enforcement technologies on Mexicans, Arabs, and Muslims from the mid-twentieth century to the present, showing how data systems are presented as solutions to unauthorized border crossing. Contrary to enduring fantasies of the purported neutrality of drones, smart walls, artificial intelligence, and biometric technologies, the cybernetic border represents the consolidation of calculation and automation in the exercise of racialized violence. Chaar López draws on corporate, military, and government records, promotional documents and films, technical reports, news reporting, surveillance footage, and activist and artist practices. These materials reveal how logics of enmity are embedded into information infrastructures that shape border control and modern sovereignty"-- Provided by publisher.
521 _aToward a Theory of the Border Technopolitical Regime -- Scripting the Frontier: Drone Intruders and the Racial Politics of Unmanning -- Automating Boundaries: Information as a Regime of Border Control -- Platforms of Enmity and the Consolidation of the Networked Information Regime -- Technoaesthetics of Dissent in the Age of the Cybernetic Border -- The Unbearable Endurance of Data Technopolitics and Enmity.
650 _aImmigration enforcement -- Technological innovations -- United States -- History.
650 _aBorder security -- Technological innovations -- United States.
650 _aCyberinfrastructure -- United States.
650 _aUnited States--Emigration and immigration.
650 _aUnited States--Boundaries.
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