Captivating Technology

From ankle monitors and policing algorithms, technologies rapidly expanded into everyday life including hospitals, schools, banking, social services, shopping malls, and digital life. These supposedly unbiased technologies deepen racial hierarchies and create new avenues for social control. In Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life (Duke University Press), Ruha Benjamin compiles essays that examine the problem from an interdisciplinary view point and propose a reimagining of innovations that could be used to achieve much greater social equality.