Biometrics : bodies, technologies, biopolitics / / Joseph Pugliese
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| Autore: |
Pugliese Joseph <1959-, >
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| Titolo: |
Biometrics : bodies, technologies, biopolitics / / Joseph Pugliese
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (193 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 006.4 |
| 306.46 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Biometric identification |
| Anthropometry | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Biometrics |
| ISBN: | 1-283-52012-5 |
| 9786613832573 | |
| 0-203-84941-8 | |
| 1-136-95519-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910461789703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society