Dear Anna, Philipp and AoIR colleagues, A few suggestions when it comes to technology and borders. Andreas, Peter. *Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide*. 2000. 2nd edition, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. Mezzadra, Sandro and Brett Neilson. *Border as Method, Or, the Multiplication of Labor*. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. Raley, Rita. *Tactical Media*. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. (Chapter 1) Vukov, Tamara and Mimi Sheller. “Border Work: Surveillant Assemblages, Virtual Fences, and Tactical Counter-Media.” *Social Semiotics* 23, no. 2 (2013): 225-241. My ongoing research is on borders and/as technology with a specific focus on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands since the mid-twentieth century. Last year, I published an article in *American Quarterly* <https://muse.jhu.edu/article/728858/summary> that deals with the history of the automation of border control and its entanglements with racial formation. The article centers the emergence of what I call the cybernetic border through the design, installation and use of an "electronic fence"--antecedents to today's "smart walls" and the wider surveillant assemblage. I elaborate this point in my book manuscript, *The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion* (under contract with Duke University Press). As a member of the Precarity Lab, a group of colleagues and I cowrote a short article published in *Social Text *that traces the production and proliferation of precarity across geographical sites and its associations with technology. Here is the link to our "Digital Precarity Manifesto." <https://read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/article-abstract/37/4%20(141)/77/141540/Digital-Precarity-Manifesto> We also cowrote a book, *Technoprecarious* <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/technoprecarious>, which develops our ideas further and it will be published this fall by Goldsmiths/MIT Press. I hope these are helpful, Iván -- Mellon Diversity Postdoctoral Associate Latina/o Studies Program Department of Science and Technology Studies Cornell University www.ivanchaar.net ichaar@cornell.edu On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 10:40 AM Philipp Budka <ph.budka@philbu.net> wrote:

Dear Ana,

For anthropological perspectives on technology and possible definitions, see e.g.

Adams, R. McC. (1996). Paths of fire: An anthropologist's inquiry into western technology. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

de la Cadena, M. et al. (2015). Anthropology and STS: Generative interfaces, multiple locations. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 5(1), 437-475. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau5.1.020

Escobar, A. (1995). Anthropology and the future: New technologies and the reinvention of culture. Futures, 27(4), 409-421.

Fischer, M. J. (2007). Four genealogies for a recombinant anthropology of science and technology. Cultural Anthropology, 22(4), 539-615.

Gell, Alfred (1988). Technology and magic. Anthropology Today 4(2), 6-9.

Hess, D. J., & Layne, L. (Eds.). (1992). Knowledge and society. Volume 9, The anthropology of science and technology. London: JAI Press.

Ingold, T. (1997). Eight themes in the anthropology of technology. Social Analysis, 41(1), 106-138.

Latour, B. (2014). Technical does not mean material. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 4(1), 507-510. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau4.1.033

Pfaffenberger, B. (1988). Fetishised objects and humanised nature: Towards an anthropology of technology. Man, 23(2), 236-252.

Pfaffenberger, B. (1992). Social anthropology of technology. Annual Review of Anthropology, 21, 491-516.

Sigaut, F. (1997). Technology. In T. Ingold (Ed.), Companion encyclopedia of anthropology: Humanity, culture and social life. London: Routledge.

All the best,

Philipp

Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 20:23:06 -0400 From: Ana Visan<ana.m.visan@gmail.com> To:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Definition of technology? Message-ID: <CAFU4RtoquJWceRNGm= PbchLT5Vhs8QYM5R55jPi6ky94g892ZQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

Dear AoIRs,

I am a migration and border studies scholar researching how technologies (from mobile phones to drones to databases) affect migration journeys. I am not familiar with STS scholarship and I was hoping you could help by pointing me to some (seminal?) works that might help me formulate an all-encompassing definition of technology (or a theoretical approach to it), beyond ICTs?i.e. one that includes biometrics, information exchange databases, but also material objects like drones, and/or one that addresses both technology ?used by? as well as technology ?used on.?

Many thanks in advance,

Ana

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