Injurious Orders and the Question of Data

Allen, Barbara and Prainsack, Barbara and Suchman, Lucy (2025) Injurious Orders and the Question of Data. Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 16 (1). pp. 87-107.

Abstract

This contribution is a call to question the figure of “data” in the armamentarium of in/securitization. It builds on scholarship at the intersections of STS and critical security studies, in the context of military operations characterized by expanding infrastructures of datafication and the automation of targeting. Located within a history of discriminatory ordering, the systems of categorization that enable data-driven targeting are deeply implicated in the regeneration of configurations of enmity that justify further warfighting. Critical destabilization of those systems and practices is a necessary element in interrupting the perpetuation of militarism and the political and economic investments in its expansion.