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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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“What are you pretending not to know?”: Un/doing internalized carcerality through pedagogies of the flesh

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explore how whiteness, as carcerality, normalizes ways of being that are consistent with rationality and reason privileging mind over body; intellectual over experiential ways of knowing; and mental abstractions over passions, bodily sensations, and tactile understandings.

Dossier: Spectacles of Anti-Black Violence and Contemporary Black Horror

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors gather key questions, concepts, and resources for artists, scholars, teachers, curators, and admirers of contemporary black horror films, focusing on the intersection of blackness, spectacle, and cinema.
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Sensing the human: biometric surveillance and the Japanese technology industry:

TL;DR: It is argued that this growing ambiguity of biometric surveillance re-articulates a convergence between production and consumption, while it also informs safe society discourses and the shifting role of embodiment within digital culture.
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Blan/ck Screens: Chroma Screens Performing Race

Charu Maithani
- 01 Feb 2022 - 
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors argue that the green and blue colors of chroma screens can be considered a cultural enactment of racialized media practices, and that neither blackness nor whiteness are pre-given but are co-constituted with a powerful imaging and medial technique.
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Surveillance frontierism: art and the colonial project of surveillance

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors analyse Shaheer Tarar's artwork Jack Pine (2019) to question how settler colonialism is produced and reproduced through surveillant visualisations of the land.
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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.