Index

Contents

Introduction. 1
1. Tactical Transgressions: Bashar al-Assad's phone. 4
2. E-Waste in Cling Film: The symbolic order of technological progress. 8
3. Hi-Tech Everything: A report from the heart of techno-consumerism. 14
4. Eerie Prostheses and Kinky Strap-Ons: Mori's uncanny valley and ableist ideology. 20
5. The Dirt Inside: Computers and the performance of dust. 28
6. Orodha: The ultimate fetish commodity and its reversal. 34
7. Frugal Phone / Material Medium. 39
8. Positioning the Middle of Nowhere: GPS technology and the desert. 42
9. Sounds of Violence: The affective tonality of high-tech warfare. 48
10. Smart Bombs, Bulldozers and the Technology of Hidden Destruction. 53
11. Smart Technologies and Soviet Guns: The dialectics of postdigital warfare. 60
12. Techno-Mythology on the Border: The pandemic risk society. 69
13. Camera Surveillance and Barbed Wire. 75
14. The Smart Fence is the Message: EU border barriers as violent media. 78
15. The Deluxe Anti-Terrorist Barrier. 83
16. Struggle and Expand: The Delta Works as colonial technology. 86

Postscript: Artificial techno-myths. 89

Acknowledgements. 95

References. 105

About the author. 111


donated by Dani Ploeger


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