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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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Ways of seeing: The power and limitation of video evidence across law and policy

Sandra Ristovska
- 03 Jul 2023 - 
TL;DR: In this article , the authors argue that legal and policy considerations about the mechanisms driving visual attention, perception, and interpretation have not always kept pace with the ever-increasing use of video as evidence and suggest that sound policy, guidance, and education on the wide-ranging evidentiary functions and limitations of video may be especially important at this critical juncture when generative AI threatens to exacerbate existing challenges with visual meaning making more broadly.
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Spatial Organization as Management Practice at L’Hermitage Plantation

TL;DR: In this paper , excavation at the site of a former plantation, L'Hermitage, on the grounds of the Monocacy National Battlefield in Frederick, Maryland, revealed substantial evidence of domestic structures inhabited by enslaved people in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Postcolonial Design Interventions : Mixed Reality Design for Revealing History of Slavery and their Legacies in Copenhagen

TL;DR: Bitter & Sweet as discussed by the authors is a Mixed Reality design prototype using cultural heritage material, which reveals a multi-layered design process that occurs at the intersection between postcolonial/decolonial theory and a version of digital sketching called Embodied Digital Sketching (EDS).

Archivists as Amici Curiae: Activating Critical Archival Theory to Confront Racialized Surveillance

TL;DR: The authors rethinks the 2018 US Supreme Court case Carpenter v. United States through critical examination of four archival frameworks: co-creation and third-party doctrine; the use of documents to control the movements of certain bodies; privacy in record-keeping; and the assumed neutrality of information infrastructure.
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Does Opening Complaints Data Change Company and Consumer Behavior? Evidence from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

TL;DR: In this paper, a major assessment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is based on its exposing credit cardrelated complaints online while keeping mortgage-related complaints concealed, and both consumers and banks benefit when offending banks are exposed online.
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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.