Captivating Technology

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.

"The book comes at a timely moment, contributing to pressing contemporary conversations about predictive algorithms, bias in AI, new modes of surveillance, and the myriad ways our increasingly technologically mediated lives are experienced unequally along lines of race, class, and gender. . . . Captivating Technology offers a meaningful contribution to public and scholarly discussions of technological (in)justice." - Naomi Zucker (Somatosphere) "Benjamin presents a rich and original contribution to critical studies of race and technoscience." - Clara Hick (Ethnic and Racial Studies) “Captivating Technology is a powerful and deeply creative text that excavates suppressed histories just as much as it works towards building new futures.” - Susila Gurusami (Surveillance & Society) “Captivating Technology...is an excellent collection that is compelling both in rich individual chapters and in the synthetic whole.... One of the strengths of this collective volume is its deliberate use of literary technologies.” - Vivette García-Deister and Anne Pollock (BioSocieties) “[Captivating Technology] is an ideal in action; unfettered by carceral imaginations, scholars can invent different worlds that replace-and not merely, through reform, extend-the discriminatory societies we have made together.” - David Theodore (Technology and Culture) "Benjamin’s edited volume Captivating Technology is bursting at the seams with exciting work from leading scholars on race and technoscience." - Courtney Tabor (Journal of Race and Policy)

• Foreword / Troy Duster  xiAcknowledgments / Ruha Benjamin  xvPart I. Carceral Techniques from Plantation to Prison1. Naturalizing Coercion: The Tuskegee Experiments and the Laboratory Life of the Plantation / Britt Rusert  252. Consumed by Disease: Medical Archives, Latino Fictions, and Carceral Health Imaginaries / Christopher Perreira  503. Billions Served: Prison Food Regimes, Nutritional Punishment, and Gastronomical Resistance / Anthony Ryan Hatch  674. Shadows of War, Traces of Policing: The Weaponization of Space and the Sensible Preemption / Andrea Miller  855. This Is Not Minority Report: Predictive Policing and Population Racism / R. Joshua Scannell  107Part II. Surveillance Systems from Facebook to Fast Fashion6. Racialized Surveillance in the Digital Service Economy / Winifred Poster  1337. Digital Character in "The Scored Society": FICO, Social Networks, and the Competing Measurements of Creditworthimess / Tamara K. Nopper  1708. Deception by Design: Digital Skin, Racial Matter, and the New Policing of Child Sexual Exploitation / Mitali Thakor  1889. Employing the Carceral Imaginary: An Ethnography of Worker Surveillance in the Retail Industry / Madison Van Oort  209Part III. Retooling Liberation from Abolitionists to Afrofuturists10. Anti-Racist Technoscience: A Generative Tradition / Ron Eglash  22711. Techo-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation across the African Diaspora and Global South / Nettrice R. Gaskins  25212. Making Skin Visible through Liberatory Design / Lorna Roth  27513. Scratch a Theory, You Find a Biography: A Conversation with Troy Duster  30814. Reimagining Race, Resistance, and Technoscience: A Conversation with Dorothy Roberts  328Bibliography  349Contributors  389Index  393