David Dalton’s forthcoming book, Robo Sacer: Necroliberalism and Cyborg Resistance in Mexican and Chicanx Dystopias (Vanderbilt University Press, 2023), is scheduled to be published later this month (May 2023) and is one of the most recent titles that we have indexed at Southwest Humanities. Arguing that “robo-sacer identity emerges as transnational flows of bodies, capital, and technology become an institutionalized state of exception that relegates people from marginalized communities to the periphery,” Dalton’s book investigates “how technology has been used to oppress people of Mexican descent—both within Mexico and in the United States—since the advent of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994.” Robo Sacer engages with the digital humanities, critical race theory, border studies, biopolitical theory, and necropolitical theory, among other modalities of thought, and theorizes “how technology—and particularly cyborg subjectivity—can amend the reigning biopolitical and necropolitical structures of power in potentially liberatory ways.” For more information about this exciting forthcoming title, please take a look at the publisher’s website here.
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