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Dark matters: on the surveillance of blackness

Racquel M. Gonzales
- 15 Mar 2016 - 
- Vol. 16, Iss: 3, pp 544-546
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In Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Simone Browne re-imagines the theoretical framework undergirding the interdisciplinary field of surveillance studies: "how is the frame necessaril...
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In Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Simone Browne re-imagines the theoretical framework undergirding the interdisciplinary field of surveillance studies: “how is the frame necessaril...

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Ethics, Identity, and Political Vision: Toward a Justice-Centered Approach to Equity in Computer Science Education.

TL;DR: In this paper, Sepehr Vakil argues that a more serious engagement with critical traditions in education research is necessary to achieve a justice-centered approach to equity in computer science education.
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Interrogating Structural Racism in STEM Higher Education

TL;DR: The racialized structure of STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) higher education maintains gross inequities that are illustrative of structural racism, which both informs and is re... as mentioned in this paper.
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Black matters are spatial matters: Black geographies for the twenty-first century

TL;DR: The field of Black Geographies has gained increasing institutional recognition over the last five years, thanks to the tireless labor of Black scholars to carve out spaces for their work within the discipline as discussed by the authors.
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What does the notion of “sovereignty” mean when referring to the digital?:

TL;DR: It is shown that while the notion of “sovereignty” is generally used to assert some form of collective control on digital content and/or infrastructures, the precise interpretations, subjects, meanings, and definitions of sovereignty can significantly differ.
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Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others

TL;DR: Louise Amoore is arguing that critical political theory can challenge the arrangement of algorithms rather than simply signaling that there is a possibility at redemption through technical intervention and calls for greater transparency.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Robert D'Amico
- 20 Jun 1978 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present La Volonté de Savoir, the methodological introduction of a projected five-volume history of sexuality, which seems to have a special fascination for Foucault: the gradual emergence of medicine as an institution, the birth of political economy, demography and linguistics as human sciences, the invention of incarceration and confinement for the control of the "other" in society (the mad, the libertine, the criminal) and that special violence that lurks beneath the power to control discourse.
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

TL;DR: In this article, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe and provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde.
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Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature

Donna Haraway
TL;DR: Simians, Cyborgs and Women as mentioned in this paper is a collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989 by Haraway that analyzes accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs.