ISBN:
9780415874878
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (193 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Biometrics : Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics
DDC:
006.4
Keywords:
Biometric identification
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Anthropometry
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Anthropometry
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Biometric identification
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Biometrics: Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Epilogue: Biometrics' Infrastructrual Normativities and the Biopolitics of Somatic SingularitiesReferences; Index;
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