Tag: TBD reading group

Join us in reading Jackson’s “Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World”

Wangechi Mutu "Chocolate Nguva" 2015.

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 […]

Reading group Spring session: Ruha Benjamin’s “Race After Technology”

Snippet of Ruha Benjamin's book cover

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 […]