Surrogate Humanity

“Surrogate Humanity is a stunning, original analysis of the fantasies, surrogacies, and technologies of ‘the human’ that uphold present-day racial capitalism and empire. Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora examine ‘technoliberal’ projects that promise revolutionary liberation from labor inequality, and demonstrate their centrality to the social reproduction of the very dispossessions, differences, and exploitations they seek to transcend. An examination of the close relationship of automation, robotics, media platforms, drones, and artificial intelligence to U.S. racial logics, this is an indispensable book for feminist studies of science and technology, race and colonialism, and critiques of liberalism.” — Lisa Lowe, author of The Intimacies of Four Continents

“With clarity and force, Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora intervene into the formulations of human---machine interaction by tracking how race, colonialism, and patriarchy are woven into the fabric of robots, thereby bringing urgent scholarship on antiblackness, settler colonialism, and the racial structures of labor into the center of technoscience. The world needs this superb book!” — Michelle Murphy, author of The Economization of Life