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The dot-­com boom busted shortly ­after it began due to overconfidence and failed investment strategies (perhaps something akin to the mass tech layoffs transpiring at the time of this writing in 2023). While the crash led to a decrease in rental and home prices in the Bay Area, it also impelled th…

There w ere also antiwar movements that specifically mobilized against Silicon Valley nuclear technologies. Student movements across the country mean- while found targets in military-­industrial labs on their college campuses, such as the Applied Electronics Laboratory at Stanford.64 ­There was als…

But police vio­lence ­wasn’t the only source of strife in Hunters Point—toxicity due to contaminants from the nearby shipyard began wreaking havoc. Upon relocation, Marie first obtained a job in the neighborhood’s shipyard, unaware that the “­little white stuff ” from ship sandblasting drums scatte…

­These sharing economy imaginaries, alongside social media discourses of public forums owned by private companies, highlight a novel aspect of Silicon Valley imperialism in which racial cap­i­tal­ist pro­cesses are cloaked by technoliberalism. By technoliberalism, I invoke Neda Atanasoski and Kalin…

Despite the ongoing vio­lence of deracinated dispossession as it compounds Silicon Valley imperialism, Orientalist fantasy, and presocialist property geographies, the fight against racial banishment endures. Over a ­decade after the 2010 Coastei Street eviction, residents are still wastelanded in P…