Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures Atanasoski Neda
Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures Atanasoski Neda In Surrogate Humanity Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora trace the ways in which robots, artificial…
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Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures Atanasoski Neda
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. 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. 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.
Yet, even as engineers design robots to be more perfect versions of the human--more rational killers, more efficient workers,
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