{"product_id":"the-cybernetic-border-iv-n-chaar-l-pez-9781478030034","title":"The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe Cybernetic Border\u003c\/i\u003e, Iv疣 Chaar Lez 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 Lez 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 Lez 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Iv疣 Chaar Lez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478030038\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478030034\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d","brand":"Iv疣 Chaar Lez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44634407895295,"sku":"9781478030034","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_70f45895-2e68-42bb-b7e4-d805244062f3.jpg?v=1703589175","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-cybernetic-border-iv-n-chaar-l-pez-9781478030034","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}