The Birth of Code/Body – Pre-Print

This is a very personal piece I have written about how I have felt and keep feeling in my body as a person in exile. In addition to contributing to the way we think about bodies in a datafied world and as part of smart infrastructures, it is a way to communicate the corporeal discomfort and the wounds inflicted upon displaced people’s bodies by datafication and surveillance technologies.

Pre-Print:

Akbari, A. (2025). The Birth of Code/Body. In V. Steeves & B. Roessler (eds.). Being Human in A Digital World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Cambridge University Press, 193-206.

(all publication rights remain with the publisher. For a final version and page numbers, please consult the book)

Download the PDF here: Chapter 9_ The Birth of Code_Body – Akbari- Pre-print.pdf