The Cybernetic Border

Drones, Technology, and Intrusion

Iván Chaar López (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2024
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3003-4 (ISBN)

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Iván Chaar López argues that the United States uses a combination of drone, surveillance, and informational technologies to protect the US-Mexico border in ways that mark border crossers as racialized others that must be policed.

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.

Iván Chaar López is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Principal Investigator of the Border Tech Lab at the University of Texas at Austin and coauthor of Technoprecarious.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Toward a Theory of the Border Technopolitical Regime 1
1. Scripting the Frontier: Drone Intruders and the Racial Politics of Unmanning 29
2. Automating Boundaries: Information as a Regime of Border Control 59
3. Platforms of Enmity and the Consolidation of the Networked Information Regime 94
4. Technoaesthetics of Dissent in the Age of the Cybernetic Border 129
Epilogue. The Unbearable Endurance of Data Technopolitics and Enmity 164
Notes 173
Bibliography 199
Index 227

Erscheinungsdatum	15.02.2024
Zusatzinfo	25 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-3003-8 / 1478030038
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-3003-4 / 9781478030034
Zustand	Neuware