Ruha Benjamin
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity. Far from a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, Benjamin argues that automation has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racism of a previous era. Presenting...
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In this work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future. A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn't strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University professor, insists that imagination isn't...
4) Captivating technology: race, carceral technoscience, and liberatory imagination in everyday life
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English