On Race and Technoculture

On Race and Technoculture

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Recorded on November 17, 2021

Speaker: Dr. André Brock, Associate Professor of Media Studies at Georgia Institute of Technology

Where does Blackness manifest in Western technoculture? Technoculture is our modern ideology; our world structured through our relationships with technology and culture. Once enslaved, historically disenfranchised, and never deemed literate, Blackness is understood as the object of Western technical and civilizational practices. This presentation is a critical intervention for internet research and science and technology studies (STS), reorienting Western technoculture’s practices of “race-as-technology” to visualize Blackness as technological subjects rather than as “things”. Hence, Black technoculture. Utilizing critical technocultural discourse analysis, Afro-optimism, and libidinal economic theory, this presentation employs Black Twitter as an exemplar of Black cyberculture: digital practice and artifacts informed by a Black aesthetic.

Learn more about the Race and Technology Research Lecture Series: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/event/race-technology-a-research-lecture-series/



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