Black techno-conjuring: overlapping notes on technopolitics and the critique of raciality

Abstract

This article builds on a set of approaches to datafication, algorithmization, digital environments, and subjectivation that mobilize categories and notions in convergence with critical interventions of technopolitics, which seek to clarify the functioning of the techno-scientific dynamics that have determined the so-called information age. These approaches have been revisited by studies interested in anchoring the critique of raciality at the center of the debate on technique, expanding the technopolitical grammar, and revealing the continuity of forms of control and subjugation sustained by the replacement of the racial. Thus, to the analysis of the effects of contemporary technosolutions, such as biometrics and automation, it is necessary to add the racial calculus, which is essential to bring out paths of technical disalienation.