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UNINA9910461789703321 |
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Autore |
Pugliese Joseph <1959-, > |
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Titolo |
Biometrics : bodies, technologies, biopolitics / / Joseph Pugliese |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-52012-5 |
9786613832573 |
0-203-84941-8 |
1-136-95519-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (193 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge studies in science, technology, and society ; ; 12 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Biometric identification |
Anthropometry |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Biometrics: Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Biopolitics of Biometrics; 1 A Genealogy of Biometric Technologies; 2 The Biometrics of Infrastructural Whiteness; 3 "Identity Dominance": Biometrics, Biosurveillance, Terrorism and War; 4 Identity Fraud and Imposture: Biometrics, the Metaphysics of Presence and the Alleged Liveness of the "Live" Evidentiary Body; 5 Neurotechnologies of Truth: Brain Fingerprinting's Neurognomics and No Lie MRI's Digital Phrenology |
Epilogue: Biometrics' Infrastructrual Normativities and the Biopolitics of Somatic SingularitiesReferences; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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