Description:
This collection of essays, written by authors from diverse countries across four continents, explores the similarities and differences in technological expansionism.
Review Quotes:
"Transgressive Tech contributes to the fields of surveillance studies, digital studies, and the study of critical political economy by highlighting how governments around the world respond to moments of acute and urgent crisis through neoliberal logics of privatization. [...] The edited collection offers an important, global, and multi-perspective contribution to the ongoing study of the political economic reorganization that took place as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a look at how people around the world are continuing to wrestle with new social contracts and the administration of vital resources that they had little to no say in negotiating. In putting these case studies side by side and bringing together activist, governmental, and academic perspectives, the collection successfully shows that this problem is about power and domination. The book concludes with the hope that acknowledging the true nature of the problem can be the beginning of genuine solutions to it." -- William Kertzman, University of Virginia, USA. Surveillance & Society 24(4): 495-497