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The Emergence of iBorder

Bordering Bodies, Networks, and Machines

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ID4476327
AuthorsHolger Pötzsch (0000-0002-5533-5014, Department of Culture and Literature, University of Tromsø, Hansine Hansens Veg 18, 9037 Trosmø, Norway, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume33
Issue1
Pages101-118
Publication date2015-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d14050p
OpenAlexW2138180524
LanguageEN
Citations received57
References cited58

This paper scrutinizes the interrelation between technology and processes of bordering. In particular, it addresses the ways through which biometrics, dataveillance, predictive analytics, and robotics enlist the human body, networks, and human-machine assemblages in practices of inclusion and exclusion at the contemporary dislocated and 'smart' border. Through a description of the sociotechnical apparatuses underlying biometric, algorithmic, and automated border work, the paper develops the term iBorder, and connects its specific affordances to an emergent late-modern regime of security. With reference to the notion of cultural technique, the paper argues that contemporary technologically facilitated practices of bordering coconstitute, rather than merely process, contingent subjectivities and frames for practice

Affordance · Analytics · Biometrics · Data science · Epistemology · Human–computer interaction · Process (computing · Sociology · Sociotechnical system · Computer Science · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Global Security and Public Health · Artificial Intelligence

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