In what ways has animality, humanity and race been co-constitutive of each other? How do our understandings of being and materiality normalize humanity as white, and where does that leave the humanity of people of color? How can alternative conceptualizations of being human be found […]
Year: 2020
Posthumanism, Vulnerability and Technology
Guest post by Myriam Hernández Domínguez In January 2020 I was a fellow at the fantastic GeDIS group (Gender/Diversity in Informatics Systems). In this post I would like to share a brief summary of my research and how I got to be interested in the […]
Call for Contributions: Otherwise Practices with/in Computing
“she wouldn’t tell us anything until we stopped knowing. stopped thinking that we knew, which came at the long edge of a lot of time spent acting like we knew.” — Memory Drive, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, M Archive: After the End of the World , […]
Epistemic justice # under (co)construction #
This is the final part of a blogpost series reflecting on a workshop, held at FAccT conference 2020 in Barcelona, about machine learning and epistemic justice. If you are interested in the workshop concept and the theory behind it as well as what is a […]
Call for Contributions: New Materialist Informatics 2021
In recent decades, new materialist thought has emerged as a transversal field of inquiry that successfully brings together and constructs hybrid spaces between the social sciences & the humanities and the natural & technical sciences & engineering. Within those spaces, engagement with the concerns around […]
Experimenting with flows of work: how to create modes of working towards epistemic justice?
This is part three of a blog post series reflecting on a workshop, held at FAccT conference 2020 in Barcelona, about machine learning and epistemic justice. If you are interested in the workshop concept and the theory behind it as well as what is a […]
Finding common ground: charting workflows
This is part two of a blogpost series reflecting on a workshop, held at FAccT conference 2020 in Barcelona, about machine learning and epistemic justice. If you are interested in the workshop concept and the theory behind it, read our first article here. This post […]
#CHIMe : The very thing I needed.
On Friday 24.04.2020, I say, it was a privilege to have been a part of over 100 persons who joined the virtual CHIMe 2020 Workshop. It was an eye-opening, educational, safe space for learning and receiving mentorship. This was my first virtual workshop, CHIMe and […]
“Where is the difficulty in that?” On planning responsible interdisciplinary collaboration
By Aviva de Groot, Danny Lämmerhirt, Phillip Lücking, Goda Klumbyte, Evelyn Wan This is the first in a series of blog posts on experiences gathered during the planning, execution and reflection of our workshop “Lost in Translation: An Interactive Workshop Mapping Interdisciplinary Translations for Epistemic […]
Reading group Spring session: Ruha Benjamin’s “Race After Technology”
Are robots racist? Is visibility a trap? Are technofixes viable? What is social justice in the high-tech world? These questions are raised in Ruha Benjamin’s book Race After Technology (2019, Polity Press) that we will read during our TBD reading group spring session 2020. Race […]