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Atlanta, GA | Posted: February 23, 2022
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André Brock will be in conversation as part of this event.
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event-photoAccording to the event's website, there will conversations about questions such as "What would it mean to take the Black internet seriously? How do we call in Black studies scholars to imagining technologies of black freedoms in addition to grappling with the racial regimes wrought by artificial intelligence and machine learning models? The dominant approach to mis/disinformation is policing, reporting and suspending individual users but what if we oriented towards abolition and affirming black joy? What can the black radical tradition offer in addressing new modes of surveillance and social control that begin from black indigineity instead of reinscribing the nation state?"
"Contributors to special edition of Logic Magazine, in partnership with We Be Imagining, Beacons: Andre Brock and SA Smythe will be in conversation with Zoé Samudzi. Moderated by J. Khadijah Abdurahman".
Andre Brock is an associate professor in Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Institute of Technology.
