Border optics: surveillance cultures on the US-Mexico frontier
Introduction: Border óptica, or seeing like a state -- Borderveillant media -- Drone futures : alien vs predator -- Wild border : surveillant ecologies -- Imperial border optics -- Coda: Border futures : seeing and foreseeing.
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Format: | Print Book |
Language: | English |
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New York
New York University Press
[2021]
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In: | Year: 2021 |
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Summary: | Introduction: Border óptica, or seeing like a state -- Borderveillant media -- Drone futures : alien vs predator -- Wild border : surveillant ecologies -- Imperial border optics -- Coda: Border futures : seeing and foreseeing. "This book argues that the U.S.-Mexico border is both a laboratory and an archive that indexes an optical regime and a way of seeing that combines fascination with the region with the visual codes of surveillance and survey"-- |
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Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 175-185 und Index |
Physical Description: | ix, 197 Seiten Illustrationen |
ISBN: | 9781479807017 9781479806980 |