Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures

by Kalindi Vora and Neda Atanasoski

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478003863
• ISBN13: 9781478003861
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"