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- Title
- Biometrics : bodies, technologies, biopolitics
- Related
- Routledge studies in science, technology, and society Vol. 12
- Publisher
- New York : Routledge
- Date
- 2010
- FoR/RFCD Code(s)
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200200 Cultural Studies
- Author/Creator
- Pugliese, Joseph
- Description
- 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 a " corporate, military and governmental a " on the human body. It deploys cultural theory in examining the manner in which biometric technologies constitute the body as a target of surveillance and as a data-information object. The book thereby provides a comprehensive overview and critical analysis of both the local and global ramifications of biometric technologies.
- Description
- A genealogy of biometric technologies -- The biometrics of infrastructural whiteness -- "Identity dominance" : biometrics, biosurveillance, terrorism and war -- Identity fraud and imposture : biometrics, the metaphysics of presence and the alleged liveness of the "live" evidentiary body -- Neurotechnologies of truth : brain fingerprinting's neurognomics and no lie MRI's digital phrenology.
- Description
- 192 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 200200 Cultural Studies
- Subject Keyword
- Biometric identification
- Resource Type
- book
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Media, Music, and Cultural Studies
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/115172
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780415874878
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2010001264
- Language
- eng
