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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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Catching Our Breath: Critical Race STS and the Carceral Imagination
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw together science and technology studies and critical race theory to examine the proliferation and intensification of carceral approaches to governing human life, and argue for an expansive understanding of "the carceral" that extends well beyond the domain of policing, to include forms of containment that make innovation possible in the contexts of health and medicine, education and employment, border policies and virtual reality.
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Wayward lives, beautiful experiments: Intimate histories of social upheaval
TL;DR: In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval as mentioned in this paper, Hartman threads immersive detail, sweeping narrative, and incisive critique together to chronicle the visionary labors of early-20th-century black women who dared to live as if they were free.
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Terms of inclusion: Data, discourse, violence:
TL;DR: This work aims to articulate the problematic and often perverse power relationships implicit in ideals of “inclusion” broadly, which too often work to diffuse the radical potential of difference and normalize otherwise oppressive structural conditions.
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Default publicness: Queer youth of color, social media, and being outed by the machine:
TL;DR: It is found that US queer youth of color prefer Tumblr to express intimate feelings and personal politics over other social media such as Facebook, and identifies four design decisions that create “default publicness” on social media platforms.
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Enchanted Determinism: Power without Responsibility in Artificial Intelligence
Alexander Campolo,Kate Crawford +1 more
TL;DR: Enchanted determinism is analyzed, which sitsuate it within a broader epistemological diagnosis of modernity: Max Weber’s theory of disenchantment, and how discourses of magical deep learning produce techno-optimism.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.
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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.