Critical Inquiry

"As early scholars of biometrics stressed, absolute identification was a key to both inclusion and exclusion; comparing one body to others required the creation of biometric databases, themselves based on a mathematization of the body. "

From our Summer 2015 issue, read Nitzan Lebovic's "Biometrics, or The Power of the Radical Center": https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/681788