Biometrics: Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics: 12 (Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society) - Hardcover

Pugliese, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415874874 ISBN 13: 9780415874878

Verlag: Routledge, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Pugliese Joseph

Über diesen Titel

Reseña del editor:

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 – corporate, military and governmental – 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.

Biografía del autor:

Joseph Pugliese is Associate Professor in the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies  at Macquarie University.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0415874874
• ISBN 13: 9780415874878
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192