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Informatics of Domination
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Edited by:
Zach Blas
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Afterword by:
Donna J. Haraway
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English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
This experimental collection takes its name from Donna Haraway’s classic “Informatics of Domination” chart, addressing the formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the twenty-first century.
Author / Editor information
Zach Blas is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto.
Melody Jue is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Jennifer Rhee is Associate Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Melody Jue is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Jennifer Rhee is Associate Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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“This volume brings together a collection of diverse and original texts from a stunning array of authors who reveal the importance of understanding technodomination from the perspective of feminist and queer engagements with domination. They each start from and engage with one line of Donna J. Haraway’s ‘Informatics of Domination’ chart, updating its content and form while relating it to contemporary developments. Specialists in feminist studies, science and technology studies, and new media studies will all welcome this book and its intellectual adventurousness.”
-- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, author of Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition
-- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, author of Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition
“Linking Donna J. Haraway’s ‘Informatics of Domination’ chart to an array of contemporary bodily, ecological, sociotechnical, and expressive contexts, this collection introduces fresh perspectives and unfurls a variety of feminist, queer, postcolonial, biopolitical, and environmental agendas. Its assemblage of eclectic works deconstructs and questions the scientific authority of the diagram/chart as a form and opens up critical space, serving as an important model of experimental multidisciplinary scholarly intervention.”
-- Lisa Parks, Distinguished Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
-- Lisa Parks, Distinguished Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Chart of Transitions
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1. Representation — Simulation — Generation
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2. Bourgeois Novel, Realism — Science Fiction, Post-modernism — Visionary Fiction, Cataclysm
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3. White Capitalist Patriarchy — Informatics of Domination
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4. Organism — Biotic Component
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5. Depth, Integrity — Surface, Boundary — Circulation, Residence Time
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6. Heat — Noise
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7. White Capitalist Patriarchy — Informatics of Domination
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8. Biology as Clinical Practice — Biology as Inscription — Biological Transmutation-Adaptation
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9. Physiology — Communications Engineering
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10. Small Group — Subsystem
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11. Perfection — Optimization — Absolution
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12. Eugenics — Population Control
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13. Decadence, Magic Mountain — Obsolescence, Future Shock — Speculation, Cosmopolis
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14. Hygiene — Stress Management — Procrastination
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15. White Capitalist Patriarchy — Informatics of Domination
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16. Microbiology, Tuberculosis — Immunology, AIDS — Epigenetics, Body Burdens
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17. Organic Division of Labor — Ergonomics/Cybernetics of Labor — Inorganic Division of Labor
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18. Functional Specialization — Modular Construction — Object Orientation
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19. Reproduction — Replication
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20. White Capitalist Patriarchy — Informatics of Domination
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21. Organic Sex Role Specialization — Optimal Genetic Strategies
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22. Biological Determinism — Evolutionary Inertia, Constraints — Future Folklore
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23. Community Ecology — Ecosystem — Automated Environments
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24. Racial Chain of Being — Neo-imperialism, United Nations Humanism — the More Things Changethe More Things Change
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25. White Capitalist Patriarchy — Informatics of Domination
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26. Scientific Management in Home/Factory — Global Factory/ Electronic Cottage
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27. Family/Market/Factory — Women in the Integrated Circuit — Feminist Corpus of Organismic Art
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28. Family Wage — Comparable Worth
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29. Public/Private — Cyborg Citizenship
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30. Nature/Culture — Fields of Difference — Composting
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31. Cooperation — Communications Enhancement — Algorithmic Care
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32. White Capitalist Patriarchy — Informatics of Domination
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33. Freud — Lacan — Bergson
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34. Sex — Genetic Engineering
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35. Labor — Robotics
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36. Mind — Artificial Intelligence
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37. World War II — Star Wars — War as Big Data
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38. White Capitalist Patriarchy — Informatics of Domination
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Afterword: Pandemics of Transformation for Livable Worlds
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Epilogue: Interpreting Information
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Bibliography
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Contributors
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Index
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