The Social Life of Terror Capitalism Technologies in Northwest China

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2022-04-06 DOI:10.1215/08992363-9584694

Darren Byler

引用次数: 2

Abstract

This article examines the digital enclosure of Muslim minority data and labor through a techno-political “reeducation” system in Northwest China to make a broader argument about the way surveillance capitalism can be linked to ethnoracialization. Specifically, it considers how Chinese state capital investment incentivizes technology companies to engage in the dataveillance of ethno-racialized populations to generate what the article names terror capitalism. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research, interviews with former detainees, and analysis of internal police reports, and written in conversation with feminist anthropological scholarship on capitalism and social reproduction, it argues that these systems have created a matrix of conversion devices that produce Muslim social life under the sign of terrorism while expropriating it as data and labor. At the same time these systems, ultimately, are vulnerable to outside interception—opening them to a partial reversal of the surveillant gaze.

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西北地区恐怖资本主义技术的社会生活

本文通过中国西北地区的技术政治“再教育”系统，研究了穆斯林少数民族数据和劳动力的数字封闭，以对监视资本主义与种族化的联系方式进行更广泛的争论。具体而言，它考虑了中国国有资本投资如何激励科技公司参与对种族化人口的数据调查，以产生文章所称的恐怖资本主义。根据两年的民族志研究、对前被拘留者的采访以及对警方内部报告的分析，并在与女权主义人类学学者关于资本主义和社会再生产的对话中撰写，它认为，这些系统创造了一个转换设备矩阵，在恐怖主义的标志下产生穆斯林的社会生活，同时将其作为数据和劳动力征用。与此同时，这些系统最终很容易受到外界的拦截——这使它们面临着监视者凝视的部分逆转。

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Public Culture Multiple-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

6.70%

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