Experimentality, Surplus Data and the Politics of Debilitation in Borderzones
Experimentality, Surplus Data and the Politics of Debilitation in Borderzones
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10.1080/14650045.2020.1853103
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2020-12-31
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2.9
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Aradau, Claudia
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作者：
Aradau, Claudia
数字设备的使用和数字数据的收集在边境地区已变得普遍。无论是由国家还是非国家行为者部署，数字设备都是在激烈的批评和争议中推出的。在这篇文章中，我建议通过实验性的棱镜来接近这些干预措施。实验性最初是在关于临床试验全球化的人类学文献中提出的，最近又在女权主义科学和技术研究中重新提出。借鉴这项工作，我认为，实验性已成为一种合理的治理在边界地区，使社会关系不断分解和重组插入世俗（数字）设备到世界。自2015年以来，希腊引入了各种数字设备，首先是Skype，用于寻求庇护者的预登记，这有助于通过无协议的实验揭示一种特殊的治理形式。这种形式的实验对移民的生活产生了具体的政治影响。首先，实验性通过重新安排而不是纠正不稳定性来建立和强化新自由主义。在这样做的过程中，通过数字设备的实验性产生了削弱，而不是更好的连接或获得庇护。其次，移民不仅成为监视的对象，而且成为提取“剩余数据”的对象，这些数据将他们的生活卷入数字平台的电路中。
The use of digital devices and the collection of digital data have become pervasive in borderzones. Whether deployed by state or non-state actors, digital devices are rolled out despite intense criticism and controversy. In this article, I propose to approach these interventions through the prism of experimentality. Experimentality was initially formulated in the anthropological literature on the globalisation of clinical trials and, more recently, revisited in feminist science and technology studies. Drawing on this work, I argue that experimentality has become a rationality of governing in borderzones, which renders social relations continuously decomposable and recomposable by inserting mundane (digital) devices into the world. The introduction of various digital devices in Greece since 2015, starting with Skype for the pre-registration of asylum seekers, helps shed light on a particular form of governing through experiments without protocol. This form of experimentality has specific political effects for migrants' lives. Firstly, experimentality builds upon and intensifies neoliberalism by rearranging rather than redressing precarity. In so doing, experimentality through digital devices produces debilitation rather than better connectivity or access to asylum. Secondly, migrants become not only subjects of surveillance, but subjects of extraction of 'surplus data' which entangles their lives into the circuits of digital platforms.