Joseph Pugliese

Biometrics (eBook, ePUB)

Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Biometric technologies, such as finger- or facial-scan, are being deployed across a variety of social contexts in order to facilitate and guarantee identity verification and authentication. In the post-9/11 world, biometric technologies have experienced an extraordinary period of growth as concerns about security and screening have increased. This book analyses biometric systems in terms of the application of biopolitical power - corporate, military and governmental - on the human body. It deploys cultural theory in examining the manner in which biometric technologies constitute the body as a target of surveillance and as a data-information object. The book thereby provides a comprehensive overview and critical analysis of both the local and global ramifications of biometric technologies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136955181
• Artikelnr.: 38275719

Autorenporträt

Joseph Pugliese is Associate Professor in the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Biopolitics of Biometrics 1. A Genealogy of Biometric
Technologies 2. The Biometrics of Infrastructural Whiteness 3. "Identity
Dominance": Biometrics, Biosurveillance, Terrorism and War 4. Identity
Fraud and Imposture: Biometrics, the Metaphysics of Presence and the
Alleged Liveness of the "Live" Evidentiary Body 5. Neurotechnologies of
Truth: Brain Fingerprinting's Neurognomics and No Lie MRI's Digital
Phrenology. Epilogue.