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SUMMARY:Mark Andrejevic: "Drone Theory: Automated Data Collection and Processing and the Always-On War"
DESCRIPTION:This presentation is not about drones per se – or even war per se; but rather about the deployment of ubiquitous\, always-on\, networked sensors for the purposes of automated data collection\, processing\, and response. It is also about the ways in which the logic of drone warfare: prediction and pre-emption\, come to characterize a wide realm of social practices: marketing\, job screening\, health care\, romance\, and more. The presentation considers the ways in which some contemporary strands of critical theory replicate and rehearse the logics of data-driven droning: the advent of drone theory. \nMark Andrejevic is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College. He researches the relationship between popular culture\, interactive media\, and surveillance. His books include\, Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched (2004)\, iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era (2007)\, and Infoglut: How Too Much Information is Changing The Way We Think and Know (2013). He examines the social and cultural implications of data mining\, predictive analytics\, and other forms of surveillance that have become integral to how subjects interact with digital media and popular culture.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mark-andrejevic-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Hester: "Bodies as=of knowledge: The ethics and politics of biometrics in health care"
DESCRIPTION:What are the proposed uses of biometrics in health care and the ethics and politics of body data in the digital age? As security and surveillance become the order of the day\, biometric technologies have become a ubiquitous and naturalized part of most aspects of everyday life. Operating from the premise that “bodies don’t lie\,” biometrics promises increased safety\, security\, accuracy\, and reliability in identity recognition and verification. These promises are especially appealing in the health care industry where the verification of patient and provider identities is a necessary security feature for protecting patient data. Despite their promises\, however\, the fact that biometrics facilitates the coding\, analysis\, and judgment of embodied information in new\, more complex\, and more far-reaching ways than were previously possible in health care opens up a host of ethical and political issues for patients\, providers\, and populations. Long-standing virtues in medicine such as privacy\, confidentiality\, justice and beneficence are challenged as numerous and often unknown institutions and individuals beyond the clinic can and will have access to this embodied information for security\, surveillance\, and marketing purposes. \nRebecca J. Hester is assistant professor of social medicine in the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics with an emphasis in Latin American and Latino Studies from UCSC. Her research focuses on the politics of the body as they are manifested at and through the intersections of immigration\, health\, and security.  She is co-author\, with Ronnie Lipschutz\, of “We are the Borg!  Human Assimilation into Cellular Society\,” pp. 366-407\, in: M.G. Michael and Katina Michael (eds.)\, Uberveillance and the Social Implications of Microchip Implants: Emerging Technologies (Hershey\, Penna.: IGI Global\, 2014).\n  \nThese talks are co-sponsored by CGIRS\, College Eight\, the Politics Department\, the Institute for Humanities Research\, the Institute of the Arts & Sciences\, and the Science and Justice Research Center.  The BIOS  (Bodies Imag(in)ed to be Obstacles to Security) Research Cluster is a new project of the Center for Global\, International and Regional Studies\, focused on the surveillance\, management\, interrogation\, discipline and intervention  of human and other bodies in the digital age. If you are interested in joining the cluster\, please contact Ronnie Lipschutz at rlipsch@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rebecca-hester-bodies-asof-knowledge-the-ethics-and-politics-of-biometrics-in-health-care-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Hester: "Those against whom society must be defended: Mexican migrants\, swine flu\, and bioterrorism"
DESCRIPTION:Since 9/11 and in the wake of the anthrax letters\, there has been a concern about the “dual use” of biological knowledge and material which could variously be used for vaccine development or for the production of biological weapons of mass destruction. Population mobility and biological mutability have been at the center of this concern. The swine flu outbreak in 2009 in which the source of a potential pandemic was traced back to Oaxaca\, Mexico led to outcries for a better and stronger cross-border public health infrastructure. This presentation assesses the implications of an increased focus on infectious disease as a biosecurity concern for Latin American origin migrants in Mexico and the United States. The talk shows how Latin American origin populations have particularly been targeted for biosurveillance and have discursively\, if never materially\, been linked to bioterrorism. The human rights consequences of this discursive link are potentially very grave for cross-border migrants as biological explanations are used to foment xenophobia and policies are implemented to “pre-empt” and “prevent” any and every lethal biological “contaminant” from entering the United States. \nRebecca J. Hester is assistant professor of social medicine in the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics with an emphasis in Latin American and Latino Studies from UCSC. Her research focuses on the politics of the body as they are manifested at and through the intersections of immigration\, health\, and security.  She is co-author\, with Ronnie Lipschutz\, of “We are the Borg!  Human Assimilation into Cellular Society\,” pp. 366-407\, in: M.G. Michael and Katina Michael (eds.)\, Uberveillance and the Social Implications of Microchip Implants: Emerging Technologies (Hershey\, Penna.: IGI Global\, 2014).\n  \nThese talks are co-sponsored by CGIRS\, College Eight\, the Politics Department\, the Institute for Humanities Research\, the Institute of the Arts & Sciences\, and the Science and Justice Research Center.  The BIOS  (Bodies Imag(in)ed to be Obstacles to Security) Research Cluster is a new project of the Center for Global\, International and Regional Studies\, focused on the surveillance\, management\, interrogation\, discipline and intervention  of human and other bodies in the digital age. If you are interested in joining the cluster\, please contact Ronnie Lipschutz at rlipsch@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rebecca-hester-those-against-whom-society-must-be-defended-mexican-migrants-swine-flu-and-bioterrorism-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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