Issue #123 Haunting, Blackness, and Algorithmic Thought

Haunting, Blackness, and Algorithmic Thought

Ezekiel Dixon-Román and Ramon Amaro

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Synthetic images produced by StyleGAN, a “generative adversarial network” (GAN) created by Nvidia researchers. Image credit: Nvidia. 

 

Issue #123
December 2021










Notes
1

Kashmir Hill and Jeremy White, “Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?” New York Times, November 21, 2020 .

2

Ezekiel Dixon-Román, Inheriting Possibility: Social Reproduction & Quantification in Education (University of Minnesota Press, 2017).

3

Hortense Spillers, Black, White, and In Color: Essays on American Literature (University of Chicago Press, 2003), 207.

4

Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press, 2014), 152–53.

5

See .

6

Denise Ferreira da Silva, “Toward a Black Feminist Poethics: The Quest(ion) of Blackness Toward the End of the World,” The Black Scholar 44, no. 2 (2014).

7

See Isabelle Bellin, “Images de synthèse: Palme de la longévité pour l’ombrage de Gouraud,” Interstices, September 15, 2008 .

8

Samantha Cole, “AI-Assisted Fake Porn is Here and We’re All Fucked,” Motherboard, December 11, 2017 .

9

“An AI Capable in (sic) Creating Fake Porn, Is Starring Gal Gadot and More: A Terrifying Implication,” Eyers, December 12, 2017 .

10

Achille Mbembe, Critique of Black Reason, trans. Laurent Dubois (Duke University Press, 2017).

11

Gilbert Simondon, On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects, trans. Cécile Malaspina and John Rogove (Univocal Publishing, 2017), 1.

12

Sylvia Wynter, “The Ceremony Found: Towards the Autopoetic Turn/Overturn, its Autonomy of Human Agency and Extraterritoriality of (Self-)Cognition,” in Black Knowledges/Black Struggles: Essays in Critical Epistemology, ed. Jason R. Ambroise and Sabine Broeck (Liverpool University Press, 2015), 50.

13

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (Grove Press, 1967), 163.

14

See L. Adele Jinadu, “Some Aspects of the Political Philosophy of Frantz Fanon,” African Studies Review 16, no. 2 (1973).