Anti-colonial Feminist Ramblings About Everything and Anything

Edited by Rachel E. Dubrofsky and Shoshana Amielle Magnet.  Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2015. This book boldly declares the inauguration of the field of feminist surveillance studies.   I picked it up hoping to learn more about our interactions with systems of data production/collection (such as algorithms) and how they shape our sense of identity and subjectivity.  The authors argue for the need to think critically about the ways that the state collects and manages information. Under the guise of rationality, efficiency and neutrality, the technologies of data collection would themselves be structured under the logic of heteropatriarchy, colonialism and white supremacy. This idea has been circulating already in mainstream media: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/13/ai-programs-exhibit-racist-and-sexist-biases-research-reveals?CMP=fb_gu To be sure, the authors are not just interested in examining the namely 'abuses' of data collection, but fo