Sally Wyatt is Professor Emerita of Digital Cultures at the Maastricht University Science, Technology and Society Studies research programme.

'This beautifully curated collection reveals the myriad ways in which technologies become or are made hostile. It will captivate students and general readers alike'. - Claudia Aradau, Department of War Studies, King’s College London

• 1 Introduction: Hostility, Bias, and Technological Innocence - Sally Wyatt2 Agriculture:Let the Hostilities Begin! A Tale of Two Digital Strategies to De- vs. Re-Territorialize Agriculture - Léa Stiefel and Alain Sandoz 3 Architecture: They Deserved It! The Geographies of Affect and the Hostility/Justice Conundrum of Spite Architecture- Annaclaudia Martini 4 Blockchain:Blockchain Technology and Repeatable Innocence - Tim Jordan5 Borders: Navigating the Eastern Aegean Border Archipelago: Grey Zones and Black Holes by Design - Vasiliki Makrygianni 6 Bureaucracy: Biometrics, Bureaucracy, and Hostility: The Case of Aadhar in India - Vidya Subramanian 7 Cameras: Chinese Big Tech Surveillance Cameras Turning Hostile in Afghanistan - Ausma Bernot8 Cars: Gilbert Simondon and Temporal Hostility - Massimiliano Simons and Darryl Cressman 9 Curation: Epistemic Curation: Lessons from an Exhibition on The Exclusionary City - Ole B Jensen, Carsten Hvid Nielsen and Pia Justesen 10 Fences: Fencing the Hong Kongers: Protection, Control, Expulsion - Jeroen de Kloet and Yiu Fai Chow 11 Games: Gacha Alchemy: Hostility by Design in Contemporary Digital Games - Ningxiang Sun 12 Gender: Excluded by Default: Binary Gender Infrastructures as Algorithmic Design Hostility - Christoffer Koch Andersen 13 Health: Creating Hostile Technologies - Alison Powell and Philipp Seuferling 14 Hearing: The Labour of Hearing: Musicality, Mediation and Digital Hearing Aids - Nishtha Bharti and Matthew Spring 15 Nuclear: Ecological Hostility: AI, Data Centres, and a ‘Nuclear Renaissance’ - Annika Richterich16 Sewers: The Despotism of Drainage: Mexico City’s Sewer Tunnels and the Limits of Technical Democracy - Dean Chahim17 Shoes: High-Heel Hostility - Chris Hesselbein18 Spinning: Unwinding Hostilities of Cotton Spinning Technologies - Vivek S Oak19 Ultrasound: Acoustic Pest Repellents and Ultrasonic Hostility in a Multispecies World - Joeri Bruyninckx 20 Urban: Critical Theory and Hostile Urban Design - Blake D Scott and Lisann Penttilä 21 Weapons: Governing Hostility by Ethics: Towards a Responsible Use of AI-enabled Weapons - Jens Hälterlein 22 Welfare: From Solidarity to Suspicion: Hostility in the Dutch Welfare State - Marijke Roosen and Cassy Juhasz 23 X-rays: Hostile Examiners: Considering X-ray Machines as Hostile Technologies in the Canadian Immigrant Medical Exam - Brigid Goulem24 Zombies: Drift, Pause, Insurrection: The Maastricht Zombie Walk - Christian Ernsten and Claartje Rasterhoff