Dear SIGCIS colleagues, Passing by to share two new publications with you. My first book is out now with Duke University Press, and you can get it 30% off through this link<https://t.co/ErdGjdbGko>. The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion (abstract below) touches upon how cybernetic logics and data routines, since the mid-twentieth century, slowly became a dominant arrangement in the making of geopolitical borders and the management of populations. Lastly, my colleague and former Border Tech Lab researcher, Victoria Sánchez, and I wrote a book chapter on artificial intelligence, microwork, and the racial politics of care. Our chapter (open access here<https://uplopen.com/reader/chapters/pdf/10.1525/luminos.190.n>) tackles the emergence of Sama as a former nonprofit devoted to impact sourcing and the development of a labor supply chain for data annotation and platform moderation. Drawing on corporate plans, user configurations, and discourse analysis, we interrogate the tensions inherent in Sama's commitments and sociotechnical arrangements for ethical AI through an analytical lens (racial politics of care) that builds on critical race STS and feminist STS. The chapter is part of an edited volume on Feminist Cyberlaw<https://uplopen.com/books/e/10.1525/luminos.190> (open access) edited by Meg Leta Jones and Amanda Levendowski. Salud, Iván 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 Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies PI, Border Tech Lab University of Texas at Austin Author of The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion<https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-cybernetic-border> (Duke University Press, 2024) [cid:9f2a691f-7df5-4675-b719-ac64f075f063] [cid:1526a7b6-cf1d-469e-a63c-e8a15a8a52ff]<https://outlook.office365.com/bookwithme/user/874259e3445b46e79161f6c9a78a07e5@utexas.edu?anonymous&ep=bwmEmailSignature> Book time to meet with me<https://outlook.office365.com/bookwithme/user/874259e3445b46e79161f6c9a78a07e5@utexas.edu?anonymous&ep=bwmEmailSignature>
