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SUMMARY:Surrogate Humanity: Race\, Robots\, and the Politics of Technological Futures
DESCRIPTION:Co-authors Neda Atanasoski (UCSC Feminist Studies\, CRES) and Kalindi Vora (UC Davis Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies) will present on their new book Surrogate Humanity: Race\, Robots\, and the Politics of Technological Futures (Duke University Press\, March 2019)\, with responses by CRES Director Christine Hong and SJRC Director Jenny Reardon. A dessert reception will follow. \nBook Description \nIn Surrogate Humanity\, Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora trace the ways in which robots\, artificial intelligence\, and other technologies serve as surrogates for human workers within a labor system entrenched in racial capitalism and patriarchy. Analyzing myriad technologies\, from sex robots and military drones to sharing economy platforms\, Atanasoski and Vora show how liberal structures of antiblackness\, settler colonialism\, and patriarchy are fundamental to human-machine interactions as well as the very definition of the human. While these new technologies and engineering projects promise a revolutionary new future\, they replicate and reinforce racialized and gendered ideas about devalued work\, exploitation\, dispossession\, and capitalist accumulation. Yet\, even as engineers design robots to be more perfect versions of the human—more rational killers\, more efficient workers\, and tireless companions—the potential exists to develop alternative modes of engineering and technological development in ways that refuse the racial and colonial logics that maintain social hierarchies and inequality. \n  \nNeda Atanasoski is Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity. \n  \n  \nKalindi Vora is Associate Professor of Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies at the University of California\, Davis\, and author of Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor.\n \n  \n  \nHosted by the Science & Justice Research Center. Co-Sponsored by Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/atanasoski-and-vora-surrogate-humanity-race-robots-and-the-politics-of-technological-futures/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Room 599\,  Engineering 2\, 1156 High St‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jessica Enevold: "Mama Ludens vs Fanboi – What is wrong with the Gaming Revolution?"
DESCRIPTION:It has been hailed for a while\, in articles\, book introductions and sales reports: the gaming revolution. Fun for all is finally here and if we put our minds to it\, games may even save the world! Then\, what is wrong with the gaming revolution? The question can be read both as a complaint and a celebration of what is happening. This talk questions the gaming revolution by playfully pitting Mama Ludens vs Fan-boi\, here representing everyday playing practices of adult female gamers and conservative discursive elements of game culture\, in a symbolic battle over ludic fun. It nevertheless welcomes the gaming revolution as a cultural evolution\, but calls for a more profound and radical ludic revolution. \nJessica Enevold is Assistant Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences\, section for ethnology at Lund University\, Sweden where she organizes the Digital Cultures and Games Lecture and Lab Series and works as course coordinator\, supervisor and teacher in the Master’s Program Applied Cultural Analysis (MACA). She runs the research projects “Gaming Moms: Juggling Time\, Play and Family Life” and “Games and Play – For Better For Worse”. She currently co-edits an anthology on Game Love and is the Managing Editor for the international journal Game Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jessica-enevold-mama-ludens-vs-fanboi-what-is-wrong-with-the-gaming-revolution-2/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Room 599\,  Engineering 2\, 1156 High St‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Banu Subramaniam: "Tracking Ghosts: Hauntings from a Eugenic Past"
DESCRIPTION:What do morning glory flowers or exotic plant and animal species have to do with the history of race or eugenics? In this talk\, I trace the genealogies of ecology and evolutionary biology to explore how histories of gender and race shape contemporary biological theories and what lessons we can learn about the relationships between natures and cultures. \nBanu Subramaniam is associate professor of Women\, Gender\, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. She is coeditor of Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation (Routledge\, 2001) and Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties (Rowman and Littlefield\, 2005). Trained as a plant evolutionary biologist\, she seeks to engage the social and cultural studies of science in the practice of science. Spanning the humanities\, social sciences\, and the biological sciences\, her research is located at the intersections of biology\, women’s studies\, ethnic studies and postcolonial studies. Her current work focuses on the genealogies of variation in evolutionary biology\, the xenophobia and nativism that accompany frameworks on invasive plant species\, and the relationship of science and religious nationalism in India. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Feminist Studies Department and the Science and Justice Working Group.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/banu-subramaniam-tracking-ghosts-hauntings-from-a-eugenic-past-2/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Room 599\,  Engineering 2\, 1156 High St‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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