The power of memes cannot be fully understood without considering their role in the complex relationship between technology, space, and politics.
Video: Jonathan Sterne, “Diminished Vocalities: On Prostheses and Abilities”
Impairments are usually understood as the physical or biological substrates of culturally produced disabilities, but Jonathan Sterne considers them as a political and theoretical problem in their own right.
Video: Lana Swartz, “New Money: How Payment Became Social Media”
Lana Swartz’s book New Money frames money as a media technology, one in major transition.
Video: Justin Reich, “Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education”
Justin Reich explores the recent history of large scale learning technologies to explain why technology provides such uneven support to students.
Video: Kishonna Gray, “Intersectional Tech: Exploring the Black Cultural Production of Gamers in Transmediated Culture”
Illustrating a framework for studying the intersectional development of technological artifacts and systems and their impact on Black cultural production and social processes.
Podcast: Lucy Suchman, “Artificial Intelligence & Modern Warfare”
Lancaster University’s Lucy Suchman’s concern is with the asymmetric distributions of sociotechnologies of (in)security, their deadly and injurious effects, and the legal, ethical, and moral questions that haunt their operations.
Operational Atmosphere: Mediating Policing in the ‘Fight Against Crime’ and ‘Rural Terrorism’ in Chile
This thesis delves into a critical study of the contemporary anatomy of power, in which mediation processes are becoming central to policing practices, with a focus on two contexts: the fight against crime in urban areas, and the battle against “rural violence” or “terrorism” in the Mapuche indigenous territories in the south of Chile.
