Behind Walls
Keith Breckenridge: Recasting The Technologies of the Carceral Empire
HOW TO PARTICIPATE This Zoom webinar is free and open to the public. Register here. TITLE Recasting the Technologies of the Carceral Empire: India, South Africa, and the Political Paradoxes of Post-Colonial Citizenship SPEAKER Keith Breckenridge, University of the Witwatersrand in conversation with Ursula Rao, University of Leipzig ABSTRACT If India in the 19th century […]
Criminal Knowledge: Evidence, Expertise, and the Carceral State
HOW TO PARTICIPATE This Zoom webinar is free and open to the public. Register here. TITLE Criminal Knowledge: Evidence, Expertise, and the Carceral State SUMMARY From physiognomy to predictive policing, technoscience has long been central to the power of the carceral state. At the same time, carceral sites such as prisons, courtrooms, and crime scenes […]
Privatization, Technology, and the Carceral State
HOW TO PARTICIPATE This Zoom webinar is free and open to the public. Register here. TITLE Privatization, Technology, and the Carceral State SUMMARY From investment in surveillance technologies to relying on prison labor, the carceral state--like so many other traditional state functions--is being privatized. The state is turning to the private sector in the hopes […]
Living in a Carceral State
HOW TO PARTICIPATE This Zoom webinar is free and open to the public. Register here. TITLE Living in a Carceral State SUMMARY The twenty-first century carceral state inspires anxieties of a national or even global-scale panopticon. Omniscient and omnipresent technologies report our movements, purchases, communications, and even desires to invisible and unaccountable corporations and government […]