Race and/as Technology, or How to Do Things to Race

Abstract

This essay poses the questions: to what degree are race and technology intertwined? To what extent can race be considered a technology and mode of mediatization, that is, not only a mechanism, but also a practical or industrial art? Could “race” be not simply an object of representation and portrayal, of knowledge or truth, but also a technique that one uses, even as one is used by it-a carefully crafted, historically inflected system of tools, of mediation, or of “enframing” that builds history and identity?

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