Make bloom and let wither: Biopolitics of precision agriculture at the dawn of surveillance capitalism
Make bloom and let wither: Biopolitics of precision agriculture at the dawn of surveillance capitalism
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DOI：
10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.04.014
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发表时间：
2021-06
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
R. Stock;M. Gardezi
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作者：
R. Stock;M. Gardezi
精准农业是数据驱动的农业技术的集合，被认为是应对气候引起的粮食不安全的聪明策略。农业技术公司将数据抓取作为一种积累策略，并影响农民的行为，为监视资本主义开辟了新的农业领域。运用大数据来管理和优化粮食生产系统中的物种，成为一种“让花开，让枯萎”的生物政治计算，并对劳动力的农业问题产生影响。利用来自南达科他州和佛蒙特州的混合方法实地考察，我们记录了不同行为者如何表现和竞争农业算法的主观性，从而产生了粮食政治和新自由主义国家与公民关系的新颖地形。
Precision agriculture is an assemblage of data-driven agricultural technologies, discursively articulated as a clever gambit against climate-induced food insecurity. Agritech companies engage in data grabbing as an accumulation strategy and to influence farmers’ behaviors, opening new agrarian frontiers for surveillance capitalism. Wielding big data to manage and optimize species within food production systems becomes a biopolitical calculation of “make bloom and let wither,” with implications for the agrarian question of labor. Drawing on mixed methods fieldwork from South Dakota and Vermont, we document how different actors perform and contest agri-algorithmic subjectivities, producing novel terrains of food politics and neoliberal state-citizen relations.