Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen
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Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen

  1. 321 pages
  2. English
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Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen

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New and emerging technologies, especially ones that infiltrate intimate spaces, relations, homes, and bodies, are often referred to as creepy in media and political discourses. In Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin introduce a feminist theory of creep that they substantiate through critical engagement with smart homes, smart dust, smart desires, and smart forests toward dreams of feminist futures. Contributing authors further illuminate what is otherwise obscured, assumed, or dismissed in characterizations of technology as creepy or creeping. Considering diverse technologies such as border surveillance and China's credit system to sexcams and home assistants, the volume's essays and artworks demonstrate that the potentials and pitfalls of artificial intelligence and digital and robotic technologies cannot be assessed through binaries of seeing/being seen, privacy/surveillance, or harmful/useful. Together, their multifaceted and multimodal approach transcends such binaries, accounting for technological relations that exceed sight to include touch, presence, trust, and diverse modes of collectivity. As such, this volume develops creep as a feminist analytic and creative mode on par with technology's complex entanglement with intimate, local, and global politics.

Contributors. Neda Atanasoski, Katherine Bennett, IvĂĄn Chaar LĂłpez, Sushmita Chatterjee, Hayri Dortdivanlioglu, Sanaz Haghani, Jacob Hagelberg, Jennifer Hamilton, Antonia HernĂĄndez, Marjan Khatibi, Tamara Kneese, Erin McElroy, Vernelle A. A. Noel, Jessica Olivares, Nassim Parvin, Beth Semel, Renee Shelby, Tanja Wiehn

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Prologue
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Interview with ChatGPT
  6. Introduction: Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin
  7. 1. Maintenance Play / Antonia HernĂĄndez
  8. 2. Uncivil Technoscience: Anti-immigration and Citizen Science in Boundary Making / IvĂĄn Chaar LĂłpez
  9. 3. Hesitancy, Solidarity, and Whiteness: The Limits and Possibilities of Rape-Reporting Apps / Renee Shelby
  10. 4. Undoing Landlord Technologies: Beyond the Propertied Logics of the Pandemic Past and Present / Erin Mcelroy
  11. 5. Reading the Room: Messy Contradictions in the Datafied Home / Tanja Wiehn
  12. 6. Surveillance Vigilantes: Property, Porch Pirates, and Paranoia on Nextdoor / Jessica L. Olivares
  13. 7. Alexa, Disability, and the Politics of Things Not Apprehended / Jennifer A. Hamilton
  14. 8. Tracking for Two: Surveillance and Self-Care in Pregnancy Apps / Tamara Kneese
  15. 9. “So Creepy It Must Be True!”: Techno-Orientalism, Technonationalism, and the Social Credit Imaginary / Jacob Hagelberg
  16. 10. Resistant Resonances: Vocal Biomarkers, Transductive Labor, and the Politics of Things Not Heard / Beth Semel
  17. 11. Animal-Vegetal-Technology: Creeping Categories / Sushmita Chatterjee
  18. Epilogue: Dreaming Feminist Futures / Neda Atanasoski And Nassim Parvin
  19. Bibliography
  20. Contributors
  21. Index