# Event Details

- **Event Name**: LLILAS Faculty Book Presentation: The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 09 Apr, 2025 at 04:00 pm
- **Event Description**: LLILAS Faculty Book Presentation: 
The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion

Iván Chaar López, American Studies, Border Tech Lab

Moderator: Edgar Gómez-Cruz, iSchool
Respondents: Amelia Acker, iSchool, and C.J. Álvarez, Mexican American and Latina/o Studies

Benson Latin American Collection, 2nd floor conference room

In "The Cybernetic Border," Iván Chaar López argues that the settler US nation requires the production and targeting of a racialized enemy that threatens the empire. The cybernetic border is organized through practices of data capture, storage, processing, circulation, and communication that police bodies and constitute the nation as a bounded, territorial space. Chaar López historicizes the US government’s use of border enforcement technologies on Mexicans, Arabs, and Muslims from the mid-twentieth century to the present, showing how data systems are presented as solutions to unauthorized border crossing. Contrary to enduring fantasies of the purported neutrality of drones, smart walls, artificial intelligence, and biometric technologies, the cybernetic border represents the consolidation of calculation and automation in the exercise of racialized violence. Chaar López draws on corporate, military, and government records, promotional documents and films, technical reports, news reporting, surveillance footage, and activist and artist practices. These materials reveal how logics of enmity are embedded into information infrastructures that shape border control and modern sovereignty.

Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Paloma Díaz at p.diaz@austin.utexas.edu
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/austin/llilas-faculty-book-presentation-the-cybernetic-border-drones-technology-and-intrusion/200027796475821
- **Event Categories**: business, art, entertainment, conferences, artificial-intelligence
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 14

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Austin
- **state**: TX
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 2300 Red River St, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78705
- **lat**: 30.28429
- **long**: -97.72907
- **full address**: 2300 Red River St, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78705

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- **Q**: When and where is LLILAS Faculty Book Presentation: The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion being held?
  - **A:** LLILAS Faculty Book Presentation: The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion takes place on Wed, 09 Apr, 2025 at 04:00 pm to Wed, 09 Apr, 2025 at 04:00 pm at 2300 Red River St, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78705.
- **Q**: Who is organizing LLILAS Faculty Book Presentation: The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion?
  - **A:** LLILAS Faculty Book Presentation: The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion is organized by Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies.
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