Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Prologue ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Interview with ChatGPT xv
6. Introduction: Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen 1
7. 1. Maintenance Play 27
8. Artist contribution: The Embodied Self 39
9. Interlude: Smart Dust 41
10. 2. Uncivil Technoscience: Anti-immigration and Citizen Science in Boundary Making 49
11. 3. Hesitancy, Solidarity, and Whiteness: The Limits and Possibilities of Rape-Reporting Apps 65
12. 4. Undoing Landlord Technologies: Beyond the Propertied Logics of the Pandemic Past and Present 77
13. Artist contribution: Thousand Dreams of Yamur 93
14. Interlude: Smart Homes 97
15. 5. Reading the Room: Messy Contradictions in the Datafied Home 111
16. 6. Surveillance Vigilantes: Property, Porch Pirates, and Paranoia on Nextdoor 125
17. 7. Alexa, Disability, and the Politics of Things Not Apprehended 147
18. Artist contribution: Masks, Mirrors, Light and Shadow 159
19. Interlude: Smart Desires 161
20. 8. Tracking for Two: Surveillance and Self-Care in Pregnancy Apps 173
21. 9. “So Creepy It Must Be True!”: Techno-Orientalism, Technonationalism, and the Social Credit Imaginary 187
22. 10. Resistant Resonances: Vocal Biomarkers, Transductive Labor, and the Politics of Things Not Heard 205
23. Artist contribution: Street Smarts 221
24. Interlude: Smart Forests 223
25. 11. Animal-Vegetal-Technology: Creeping Categories 237
26. Artist contribution: Close Your Eyes 253
27. Epilogue: Dreaming Feminist Futures 255
28. Bibliography 263
29. Contributors 281
30. Index 285