Surrogate Humanity
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Surrogate Humanity

Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures

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Surrogate Humanity

Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures

About this book

In Surrogate Humanity Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora trace the ways in which robots, artificial intelligence, and other technologies serve as surrogates for human workers within a labor system entrenched in racial capitalism and patriarchy. Analyzing myriad technologies, from sex robots and military drones to sharing-economy platforms, Atanasoski and Vora show how liberal structures of antiblackness, settler colonialism, and patriarchy are fundamental to human---machine interactions, as well as the very definition of the human. While these new technologies and engineering projects promise a revolutionary new future, they replicate and reinforce racialized and gendered ideas about devalued work, exploitation, dispossession, and capitalist accumulation. Yet, even as engineers design robots to be more perfect versions of the humanā€”more rational killers, more efficient workers, and tireless companionsā€”the potential exists to develop alternative modes of engineering and technological development in ways that refuse the racial and colonial logics that maintain social hierarchies and inequality.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction:The Surrogate Human Effects of Technoliberalism
  5. 1. Technoliberalism and Automation: Racial Imaginaries of a Postlabor World
  6. 2. Sharing, Collaboration, and the Commons in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Appropriative Techniques of Technoliberal Capitalism
  7. 3. Automation and the Invisible Service Function: Toward an ā€œArtificial Artificial Intelligenceā€
  8. 4. The Surrogate Human Affect: The Racial Programming of Robot Emotion
  9. 5. Machine Autonomy and the Unmanned Spacetime of Technoliberal Warfare
  10. 6. Killer Robots: Feeling Human in the Field of War
  11. Epilogue: On Technoliberal Desire, Or Why There Is No Such Thing as a Feminist AI
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index