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Dark matters: on the surveillance of blackness
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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...Abstract:
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...read more
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Watching from Below: Racialized Surveillance and Vulnerable Sousveillance
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the simultaneous operation of surveillance and sousveillance, both predicated on racial hypervisibility, and compare the risks taken by sous veillants of color making smart-phone recordings of police brutality in the twenty-first century with the dangers faced by visible African American slaves in nineteenth-century slave narratives.
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Feeling the pulse of the city: racial liberalism and the political geographies of tension in postwar Detroit
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace how northern liberals responded to an escalation in racial unrest by developing programs that sought to detect and locate a change in the city's atmospheric charge, and created various measures to try and combat a rise in tension or aggression before it led to violence.
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Racial formations as data formations
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TL;DR: This paper used Gilroy's controversial claim that new technoscientific processes are instituting an 'end to race' as a provocation to discuss the epistemological transformation of race in America.
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“One part politics, one part technology, one part history”: Racial representation in the Unicode 7.0 emoji set:
TL;DR: This project reveals that the lack of racial representation within the emoji set is the result of colorblind racism as evidenced through two related factors: aversion to, and avoidance of, the politics of technical systems and a refusal to recognize that the racial homogeneity of the original emoji set was problematic in the first place.
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Interactive Computation and Artificial Epistemologies
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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
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.