Tracking and Targeting
Sociotechnologies of (In)security
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5337022 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Suchman (0000-0001-9752-4684, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, corresponding author), Karolina S Follis (0000-0001-5243-0430, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom), Jutta Weber (Universität Paderborn fakultät für kulturwissenschaften, Paderborn, Germany) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 983-1002 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243917731524 |
| OpenAlex | W2759739188 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 41 |
| References cited | 39 |
This introduction to the special issue of the same title sets out the context for a critical examination of contemporary developments in sociotechnical systems deployed in the name of security. Our focus is on technologies of tracking, with their claims to enable the identification of those who comprise legitimate targets for the use of violent force. Taking these claims as deeply problematic, we join a growing body of scholarship on the technopolitical logics that underpin an increasingly violent landscape of institutions, infrastructures, and actions, promising protection to some but arguably contributing to our collective insecurity. We examine the asymmetric distributions of sociotechnologies of (in)security; their deadly and injurious effects; and the legal, ethical, and moral questions that haunt their operations
Computer security · Engineering ethics · Knowledge management · Law and economics · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Sociotechnical system · Computer Science · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies · Engineering · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Global Security and Public Health · Law
Offensive Cyber Capabilities and State Violence
Dispossession through Dysfunctionality; Technological Tools as Opaque Immigration Policy
Military buzz
Basic research, lethal effects
Secrecy's subjects
A snake who eats the devil’s tail
My Documents, Check Them out
Imagining Meaningful Human Control
Dreaming biometrics in Niger
Technosecurity Cultures
The de-perimeterisation of information security
InterFaces
Science, technology, security
Cryptography as information control
Identification as translation
Airport security as translation through division and movement
Seeding the Forest
Drone Power
Moral Injury and the Psyche of Counterinsurgency
Sociotechnical imaginaries of a secure future
Biometric data flows and unintended consequences of counterterrorism
Above the law
Frontiers of digital sovereignty
Entangled Borders
Processing Alterity, Enacting Europe
Persistent Surveillance
(Dé)coder la sécurité de l’information entre maintenance et innovation
Engagement all the way down
Algorithmic warfare and the reinvention of accuracy
Taking the trouble
Scripts of Security
Governing Uncertainty or Uncertain Governance? Information Security and the Challenge of Cutting Ties
Sensors and Sensing Practices
Smart forests and data practices
The Security-Innovation Nexus in (Geo-)Political Imagination
Who said only military officers can deal with uncertainty? On the importance of uncertainty in edtech data visualisations
The Social Life of Terror Capitalism Technologies in Northwest China
Seeing like police
Norms Are What Machines Make of Them
Machine Learning and the Platformization of the Military
Toward a Critique of Algorithmic Violence
Technology and Security
The Theater of Operations
The Closed World
Rendering Life Molecular
Representing and Intervening
Spaces of Danger
Illegality, Inc
Cities under siege – the new military urbanism
Inventing Accuracy
Re-interpreting knowledge, expertise and EU governance
Simulating the Unthinkable
Surfing on the edge of chaos
Discipline and the Material Form of Images
The externalized retina
Border militarisation and the re‐articulation of sovereignty
Predicting push-button warfare
American Militarism and Blowback
The (in)securitization practices of the three universes of EU border control
Remote Split
Targets in the Cloud
Topologies of Race
Vision and Transterritory
Target Practice
Data Shadows
Seeing and Unmaking Civilians in Afghanistan
The everywhere war
Keep adding. On kill lists, drone warfare and the politics of databases
Situated Knowledges
Professional Vision
From a View to a Kill
Anthropology and Militarism
Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals
| Unique citing works | 41 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 41 |