Literary Hub
Policing is, now, an inhuman practice in both an ethical and a technical sense. People might set policy and parameters for what we’d like our carceral institutions to do. But, practically speaking, none of it is imaginable or executable without digital technologies that are fundamentally black-boxed, inscrutable to individual cops on the beat and institutional decision-makers alike. This, as much as anything, is the key point of the carceral surround: “We” humans are the products of the twenty-first-century carceral technology industry as much as its authors.