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Biometrics : bodies, technologies, biopolitics / Joseph Pugliese.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pugliese, Joseph.
- Series:
- Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
- Routledge studies in science, technology, and society ; 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biometric identification.
- Anthropometry.
- Physical Description:
- x, 179 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- 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
- Epilogue: Biometrics' Infrastructrual Normativities and the Biopolitics of Somatic SingularitiesReferences; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613832573
- 9780415874878
- 0415874874 (Cloth)
- 9781136955181
- 1136955186
- 9781283520126
- 1283520125
- 9780203849415
- 0203849418
- 9781136955198
- 1136955194
- OCLC:
- 804661611
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