Final - Race and/as Technology in Control Society

Expanding on my post “Affixing Race in a Control Society,” for my final paper I would like to look at the way Jennifer González’s way of conceptualizing race in “The Face and the Public: Race, Secrecy, and Digital Art Practice” is both symptomatic of and produces new answers for the way race can be used as a technology within an apparent move from disciplinary to control society, as illustrated by Giles Deleuze in “Postscript of the Societies of Control.” Through looking at the way González frames the terms of her current/future interventions in racial stereotyping and discrimination through a re-imagining of race and technology, I would like to look at the way an emerging set of ideas, readings, and conceptual formations stemming from the idea of a control society transform and enable visions of what kind of technology race has the potential to be, as well as what kind of technology we imagine race to have been all along. Looking at González’ article through the lens of an apparent shift from discipline to control society, I ask: what kind of technology can race now be? And, in light of González’s move to neo-democracy, what kind of technology can technology be? And, how does González’s concept of what race is (as well as the conditions of this imagining) change what race historically was?