In Suspect Identities, Simon Cole reveals that the history of criminal identification is far murkier than we have been led to believe. Cole traces the modern system of fingerprint identification to the nineteenth-century bureaucratic state, and its desire to track and control increasingly mobile, diverse populations whose race or ethnicity made them suspect in the eyes of authorities.

Cole, S. A. (2001). Suspect Identities. A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification. Harvard University Press.

Are algorithms ruling the world today? Is artificial intelligence making life-and-death decisions? Are social media companies able to manipulate elections? As we are confronted with public and academic anxieties about unprecedented changes, this book offers a different analytical prism through which these transformations can be explored.

Aradau, C., & Blanke, T. (2022). Algorithmic Reason. The New Government of Self and Other. Oxford University Press.

In Borders as Infrastructure, Huub Dijstelbloem brings science and technology studies, as well as the philosophy of technology, to the study of borders and international human mobility. Taking Europe's borders as a point of departure, he shows how borders can transform and multiply and and how they can mark conflicts over international orders.

Dijstelbloem, H. (2021.) Borders as Infrastructure: The Technopolitics of Border Control. MIT Press.