IVÁN CHAAR LÓPEZ
News!
September 2025 - New joint review of The Cybernetic Border and Border Tunnels (by Juan LLamas-Rodríguez) came out in International Journal of Communication. Jenna M. Loyd wrote a fascinating essay for Public Books putting The Cybernetic Border in conversation with other books to understand the role of Big Tech in border making.
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June 2025 - New book chapter is out in Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen (Duke University Press) edited by Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin. "Uncivil Technoscience" traces the collaborations between the American Border Patrol, defense contractors, and the United States federal government in the articulation of a border regime premised on a gradually growing, persistent technocreep—of data capture and processing, and bodily apprehension, displacement, and elimination.
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February-May 2025 - There are new book reviews of The Cybernetic Border in H-Net, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Surveillance & Society, Technology & Culture, and MediaWell from the Social Science Research Council. Grateful for the reviewers!
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May 2024 - The Feminist Cyberlaw (open access) volume is out with amazing entries tackling how gender, race, sexuality, disability, class, and its intersections affect and are affected by cyberspace and the laws governing it. Victoria Sánchez and I have a piece on "Artificial Intelligence, Microwork, and the Racial Politics of Care" you can read here.
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March 2024 - The Cybernetic Border is out now! Read the introduction (for free) and/or order the book!
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October 2023 - Just submitted proofs for my upcoming book The Cybernetic Border and got the gorgeous cover from Duke University Press.​
Upcoming/Past
Talks & Events
December 3, 2025 - Excited to share work on "The Cybernetic Border and the Politics of Care" at the Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
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November 20-22, 2025 - I'll be at the annual meeting of American Studies Association in a panel on "Networks of Empire: Borders, Racialization, and Social Reproduction through Algorithmic Systems." I'll present work from my recently published book chapter in Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen (Duke Univ. Press).
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September 9, 2025 - The book tour continues with a virtual talk at the Institute for Technoscience and Society, York University, Toronto.
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July 3, 2025 - Speaking at a book workshop on The Cybernetic Border hosted by Dr. Andrés Pereira at the Programa de Investigación de Estudios Latinoamericanos Críticos sobre Migración y Fronteras, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
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April 28, 2025 - Continuing the book tour at the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington, Seattle.
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April 18, 2025 - Virtual book talk at Ithaca College hosted by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program.
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April 9, 2025 - Book round table hosted by Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and the Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. Hosted by Edgar Gómez-Cruz (iSchool) with responses by Amelia Acker (iSchool) and C.J. Alvarez (Mexican-American and Latina/o Studies). More details here.
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March 28-29, 2025 - I'll present new work on artificial intelligence, HCI, and technopolitics as part of the "Mindings" conference at the University of Texas at Austin.
Research
| U.S.-Mexico borderlands |
| History of technology & imperial formations |
| Human-Computer Interaction |
| Digital labor |
| Science & Technology Studies | Latina/o/x Studies | American Studies |
Performance by Ricardo Dominguez, Ian Alan Paul, Kate Chandler
