Telegraphic Surveillance, Psychic Dislocation, and the Data of Black Biography

Steven Nathaniel
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Abstract: Scholars have turned their attention to digital technologies' role in surveilling Blackness, but the ideas of privacy, data, and exploitation that inform this emerging research cannot be understood apart from their interlocked histories. This article examines encounters with the telegraph in mid-nineteenth century Black biography, focusing on the technology's role as a surveillance network that reshaped freedom-seekers' concept of American location. This historical precedent to location tracking inflicted a severe form of psychic dislocation that calls into question conventional understandings of the data of slavery. The existential disorientation recorded in this genre challenges inherited notions of history, while also guiding our navigation of contemporary technoculture and the social disparities it sustains.
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电报监控、精神错位和黑人传记数据
摘要:学者们已将注意力转向数字技术在监控黑人方面所起的作用,但隐私、数据和剥削等观念为这一新兴研究提供了依据,我们不能脱离这些观念相互交织的历史来理解它们。本文研究了 19 世纪中叶黑人传记中与电报的接触,重点关注该技术作为监控网络重塑了自由追求者对美国位置的概念。这种位置追踪的历史先例造成了一种严重的精神错位,使人们对奴隶制数据的传统理解产生了质疑。这种体裁所记录的存在迷失感挑战了固有的历史观念,同时也引导我们了解当代技术文化及其所维系的社会差异。
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