In Silico Race and the Heteronomy of Biometric Proxies: Biometrics in the Context of Civilian Life, Border Security and Counter-Terrorism Laws
Inscribed in this brief excerpt are the key concerns of this essay: on the one hand, I examine the presuppositions that found contemporary scientific writing on biometric technologies and that infrastructurally inform the actual technologies; on the other hand, I also proceed to discuss the practical, lived effects of biometric technologies in the context of everyday life. Woodward et al open their Introduction by invoking the spectre of that watershed date, 9/11, in order to mark the inextricable relation between what would come to be known, in the language of the west, as the ‘war on terror’ and the consequent deployment of biometric technologies by government and military institutions in order to wage this war. In the context of this essay, I reverse the order of inquiry into biometric technologies by relegating my discussion of the military and governmental use of biometrics to the second-half of the essay. I stage this reversal in order to examine, in the
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