Robo Sacer: Necroliberalism and Cyborg Resistance in Mexican and Chicanx Dystopias

by David Dalton

Robo Sacer engages the digital humanities, critical race theory, border studies, biopolitical theory, and necropolitical theory to interrogate how technology has been used to oppress people of Mexican descent--both within Mexico and in the United States--since the advent of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994. As the book argues, robo-sacer identity emerges as transnational flows of bodies, capital, and technology become...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826505384
• ISBN13: 9780826505385
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"