Informatics of Domination is an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the twenty-first century. The volume takes its name from a chart in Donna J. Haraway’s canonical 1985 essay “A Manifesto for Cyborgs.” Haraway theorizes the informatics of domination as a feminist, diagrammatic concept for situating power and a world system from which the figure of the cyborg emerges. Informatics of Domination builds on Haraway’s chart as an open structure for thought, inviting fifty scholars, artists, and creative writers to unfold new perspectives. Their writings take on a variety of forms, such as essays on artificial intelligence, disability and protest, and transpacific imaginaries; conversations with an AI trained on Black oral history; a three-dimensional response to Mexico-US border tensions; hand-drawn images on queer autotheory; ecological fictions about gut microbiomes and wet markets; and more. Together, the writings take up the unfinished structure of the chart in order to proliferate critiques of white capitalist patriarchal power with the study of information systems, networks, and computation today. This volume includes an afterword by Haraway. Contributors. Dalida MarÍa Benfield, Zach Blas, Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone, micha cÁrdenas, Amy Sara Carroll, Shu Lea Cheang, Jian Neo Chen, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Stephanie Dinkins, Ricardo Dominguez, Ashley Ferro-Murray, Matthew Fuller, Jacob Gaboury, Jennifer Gabrys, Alexander R. Galloway, Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Donna J. Haraway, Eva Hayward, Stefan Helmreich, Kathy High, Leon J. Hilton, Ho Rui An, Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, Tung-Hui Hu, Caroline A. Jones, Melody Jue, Homay King, Larissa Lai, Lawrence Lek, Esther Leslie, Alexis Lothian, Isadora Neves Marques, Radha May (Elisa Giardina-Papa, Nupur Mathur, and Bathsheba Okwenje), Shaka McGlotten, Mahan Moalemi, madison moore, Astrida Neimanis, Bahar Noorizadeh, Luciana Parisi, Thao Phan, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Rita Raley, Patricia Reed, Jennifer Rhee, Bassem Saad, Ashkan Sepahvand, Justin Talplacido Shoulder, Lucy Suchman, Ollie Zhang

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments  xi Introduction: Chart of Transitions / Zach Blas, Melody Jue, and Jennifer Rhee  1 1. Representation-Simulation-Generation / Rita Raley  33 2. Bourgeois Novel, Realism-Science Fiction, Post-modernism-Visionary Fiction, Cataclysm / Alexis Lothian  41 3. White Capitalist Patriarchy-Informatics of Domination / Radha May (Elisa Giardina-Papa, Nupar Mathur, and Bathsheba Okwenje)  48 4. Organism-Biotic Component / Leon J. Hilton  52 5. Depth, Integrity-Surface, Boundary-Circulation, Residence Time / Eva Hayward and Stefan Helmreich  57 6. Heat-Noise / Ollie Zhang  65 7. White Capitalist Patriarchy-Informatics of Domination / Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart  71 8. Biology as Clinical Practice-Biology as Inscription-Biological Transmutation-Adaptation / Kathy High  77 9. Physiology-Communications Engineering / Esther Leslie  83 10. Small Group-Subsystem / Lawrence Lek  90 11. Perfection-Optimization-Absolution / Alexander R. Galloway  99 12. Eugenics-Population Control / Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone  103 13. Decadence, Magic Mountain-Obsolescence, Future Shock-Speculation, Cosmopolis / Bahar Noorizadeh and Bassem Saad  110 14. Hygiene-Stress Management-Procrastination / Mahan Moalemi  118 15. White Capitalist Patriarchy-Informatics of Domination / Larissa Lai  124 16. Microbiology, Tuberculosis-Immunology, AIDS-Epigenetics, Body Burdens / Isadora Neves Marques  130 17. Organic Division of Labor -Ergonomics/Cybernetics of Labor-Inorganic Division of Labor / Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal  136 18. Functional Specialization-Modular Construction-Object Orientation / Jacob Gaboury  146 19. Reproduction-Replication / Luciana Parisi  152 20. White Capitalist Patriarchy-Informatics of Domination / Ashkan Sepahvand  159 21. Organic Sex Role Specialization-Optimal Genetic Strategies / Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Luiza Prado de O. Martins  168 22. Biological Determination-Evolutionary Inertia, Constraints-Future Folklore / Ashley Ferro-Murray and Justin Talplacido Shoulder  176 23. Community Ecology-Ecosystem-Automated Environments / Jennifer Gabrys  182 24. Racial Chain of Being-Neo-imperialism, United Nations Humanism-the More Things Change-the More Things Change / Shaka McGlotten  189 25. White Capitalist Patriarchy-Informatics of Domination / Jian Neo Chen  196 26. Scientific Management in Home/Factory-Global Factory/Electronic Cottage / Ho Rui An  203 27. Family/Market/Factory-Women in the Integrated Circuit-Feminist Corpus of Organismic Art / Caroline A. Jones  211 28. Family Wage-Comparable Worth / Dalida MarÍa Benfield  218 29. Public/Private-Cyborg Citizenship / Amy Sara Carroll and Ricardo Dominguez, with contributions from micha cÁrdenas on behalf of Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0  226 30. Nature/Culture-Fields of Difference-Composting / Jennifer Mae Hamilton and Astrida Neimanis  232 31. Cooperation-Communications Enhancement-Algorithmic Care / Stephanie Dinkins  241 32. White Capitalist Patriarchy-Informatics of Domination / madison moore  249 33. Freud-Lacan-Bergson / Homay King  257 34. Sex-Genetic Engineering / Shu Lea Cheang and Matthew Fuller  264 35. Labor-Robotics / Lucy Suchman  270 36. Mind-Artificial Intelligence / Ana Teixeira Pinto  276 37. World War II-Star Wars-War as Big Data / Tung-Hui Hu  282 38. White Capitalist Patriarchy-Informatics of Domination / Thao Phan  288 Afterword: Pandemics of Transformation for Livable Worlds / Donna J. Haraway  295 Epilogue: Interpreting Information / Patricia Reed  297 Bibliography  305 Contributors  335 Index  349