Technocreep and the Politics of Things not Seen

Neda Atanasoski is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland. Nassim Parvin is an Associate Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington.

Prologue ix Acknowledgments xi Interview with ChatGPT xv Introduction / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin 1 1. Maintenance Play / Antonia HernAndez 27 Artist Contribution: "The Embodied Self" / Marjan Khatibi 39 Interlude: Smart Dust / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin 43 2. Uncivil Technoscience: Anti-immigration and Citizen Science in Boundary Making / IvAn Chaar LOpez 51 3. Hesitancy, Solidarity, and Whiteness: The Limits and Possibilities of Rape-Reporting Apps / Renee Shelby 67 4. Undoing Landlord Technologies: Beyond the Propertied Logics of the Pandemic Past and Present / Erin McElroy 79 Artist Contribution: "Thousand Dreams of Yamur" / Hayri Dortdivanlioglu 95 Interlude: Smart Homes / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin 99 5. "Reading the Room": Messy Contradictions in the Datafied Home / Tanja Wiehn 113 6. Surveillance Vigilantes: Property, Porch Pirates, and Paranoia on Nextdoor / Jessica L. Olivares 127 7. Alexa, Disability, and the Politics of Things Not Apprehended / Jennifer A. Hamilton 149 Artist Contribution: "Masks, Mirrors, Light and Shadow" / Vernelle A. A. Noel 161 Interlude: Smart Desires / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin 163 8. Tracking for Two: Surveillance and Self-Care in Pregnancy Apps / Tamara Kneese 175 9. "So Creepy It Must Be True!": Techno-Orientalism, Technonationalism, and the Social Credit Imaginary / Jacob Hagelberg 189 10. Resistant Resonances: Vocal Biomarkers, Transductive Labor, and the Politics of Things Not Heard / Beth Semel 207 Artist Contribution: "Streetsmarts" by Katherine Bennett 223 Interlude: Smart Forests / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin 225 11. Animal-Vegetal-Technology: Creeping Categories / Sushmita Chatterjee 239 Artist Contribution: "Close Your Eyes" by Sanaz Haghani 255 Epilogue: Dreaming Feminist Futures / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin 257 Bibliography 265 Contributors 283 Index

"Successfully rethinking the stance that certain technologies go too far into our private lives and bodies, this stellar collection opens up intellectual space for alternative perspectives that will enliven many debates in science and technology studies and beyond. It exposes the exceptional limits of liberal critique of privacy and the human when faced with technologies that threaten the divide between the human and nonhuman, surveillance and privacy, and the intimate and economic. A well-conceptualized, exciting, and much-needed intervention." - Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, author of (Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land)