On a completely different note: I'm teaching this term
so going into 2018, be prepared for quite some commentary on the topic of the course I've put together: the coloniality of the algorithm
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Anibal Quijano's theories of "the coloniality of power", Maria Lugones "the coloniality of gender" and how different forms of technology (from the colonies to now) have been used to perpetuate colonial hierarchies.
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of course, I am taking the concept of the algorithm as a metonymy for different forms of technology (from the "databases of the oppressed" that aggregated human beings as units of cargo during enslavement) to today's use of surveillance and militarization
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Replying to @redlightvoices
Have you looked at Simone Browne's amazing book, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness? It's a great discussion on surveillance and has a chapter on the middle passage.
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ah I will *definitely* add it to my list. I hadn't looked at it yet but this sounds right up the outline I have put together. Thank you!
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It's really great and a wonderful intervention into surveillance studies from the point of view of critical race studies and gender.
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