Prologue ix
Acknowledgments xi
Interview with ChatGPT xv
Introduction / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin 1
1. Maintenance Play / Antonia HernÁndez 27
Artist Contribution: “The Embodied Self” / Marjan Khatibi 39
Interlude: Smart Dust / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin 43
2. Uncivil Technoscience: Anti-immigration and Citizen Science in Boundary Making / IvÁn Chaar LÓpez 51
3. Hesitancy, Solidarity, and Whiteness: The Limits and Possibilities of Rape-Reporting Apps / Renee Shelby 67
4. Undoing Landlord Technologies: Beyond the Propertied Logics of the Pandemic Past and Present / Erin McElroy 79
Artist Contribution: “Thousand Dreams of Yamur” / Hayri Dortdivanlioglu 95
Interlude: Smart Homes / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin 99
5. “Reading the Room”: Messy Contradictions in the Datafied Home / Tanja Wiehn 113
6. Surveillance Vigilantes: Property, Porch Pirates, and Paranoia on Nextdoor / Jessica L. Olivares 127
7. Alexa, Disability, and the Politics of Things Not Apprehended / Jennifer A. Hamilton 149
Artist Contribution: “Masks, Mirrors, Light and Shadow” / Vernelle A. A. Noel 161
Interlude: Smart Desires / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin 163
8. Tracking for Two: Surveillance and Self-Care in Pregnancy Apps / Tamara Kneese 175
9. “So Creepy It Must Be True!”: Techno-Orientalism, Technonationalism, and the Social Credit Imaginary / Jacob Hagelberg 189
10. Resistant Resonances: Vocal Biomarkers, Transductive Labor, and the Politics of Things Not Heard / Beth Semel 207
Artist Contribution: “Streetsmarts” by Katherine Bennett 223
Interlude: Smart Forests / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin 225
11. Animal-Vegetal-Technology: Creeping Categories / Sushmita Chatterjee 239
Artist Contribution: “Close Your Eyes” by Sanaz Haghani 255
Epilogue: Dreaming Feminist Futures / Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin 257
Bibliography 265
Contributors 283
Index

Technocreep and the Politics of Things not Seen