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Neda Atanasoski is a critical theorist and cultural scholar whose work sits at the intersection of race, technology, labor, and politics. Best known for her co-authored book *Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures* (2019, with Kalindi Vora), Atanasoski has emerged as a distinctive voice examining how emerging technologies—from artificial intelligence to sex robots—function as surrogates for human workers within systems deeply shaped by racial capitalism and patriarchy. Her most-cited work (32 citations) argues compellingly that technological advancement cannot be understood apart from histories of racial and gendered exploitation. A recurring concern across her scholarship is what she terms "technoliberalism," a framework she develops to expose the entangled logics of white supremacy and racial liberalism driving the so-called fourth industrial revolution. Her subsequent essays, including "Why the Sex Robot becomes the Killer Robot" (2020) and "Feminist Technofutures" (2023), extend this analysis by scrutinizing feminist engagements with technology and the limits of refusal as a political strategy. Atanasoski's scholarship offers students and researchers an essential critical toolkit for understanding how technological futures are never neutral, but are always already political.