"In recent years, critical data studies from the Global South have gained traction, generating debates on power, knowledge production, and the politics of data. While these discussions challenge universalist frameworks, they also risk essentializing the ‘Global South’, requiring a more nuanced approach. This special issue centres Latin America as a site of theoretical, methodological, and empirical inquiry, highlighting its potential to generate new insights into datafication, power, and artificial intelligence. Rather than treating Latin America as a passive recipient of Global North theories, this issue foregrounds its epistemological and methodological contributions to global debates. Engaging with frameworks such as capitalism, coloniality, and dependency theory, the articles explore the region's heterogeneity and intellectual traditions in social sciences, humanities, and science and technology studies. This introduction proposes a research agenda for Latin American critical data studies – one that reflects historical legacies while envisioning possible data futures through interdisciplinary and critical engagement. It interrogates the politics of knowledge production, emphasizing the need for non-extractive, dialogical approaches to studying data in, from, and with Latin America. By centering Latin American scholarship and experiences, this special issue challenges dominant narratives in critical data studies and offers alternative theoretical perspectives that are globally informed yet locally grounded."
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Architecture is never neutral. In this amazing conversation with architect and curator Mabel O. Wilson, we talk about certain architecture's fundational myths and the unspoken. We talk about whiteness, race, property, land and possesion. We also discuss racial assemblages and infrastructures, as well as colonial archives, silenced histories and reparation.
I wrote a thing, and if you're interested in #EdTech #TEL or #Education you might want to give it a wee read:
Generative AI: A Problematic Illustration
https://blog.mcchristie.com/generative-ai-a-problematic-illustration/
#Design: Some airbags rupture and spray shards of metal and plastic at motorists.
The scandal involving the Japanese inflator manufacturer Takata, which has since gone bankrupt, has been affecting the automotive industry since 2014. Airbags explode if long-term exposure to high-humidity climates with big differences in daytime and night temperatures, like those found in Nigeria, Florida or Cuba.
'Airbag maker Takata had a “broken safety culture,” poor manufacturing processes and flawed quality control – and also an unhealthy dose of overconfidence': https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/podcast/knowledge-at-wharton-podcast/dasher-macduffie-takata-airbags/
The TOP #5 being:
#1/ Yaiza Hernández
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-398/
#2/ Françoise Vergès https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-389-francoise-verges-2/
#3/ OBJECTHOOD #9
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/objecthood-9/
#4/ Imani Mason Jordan
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-395-2/
#5/ M Murphy https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-403/
#activism #coloniality #indigenousstuggles #extractivism #indigenousthinking #epistemicide
#anti-racism #writing #poetry #blackqueer #waste #terminaltourism #climatechange #touristification #infraestructures
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‘My hands are paralyzed from torture’: Gazans reveal horrors of Ofer Camp
By Oren Ziv for +972: https://www.972mag.com/ofer-camp-torture-gaza-detainees/
@immibis
The article at top of this thread lists many examples of silencing by @germany
Your recollection may hint at an earlier incident:
#Oyoun, a migrant-led cultural center, refused to give in to political pressure and cancel the 20-year anniversary event of the Jewish anti-Zionist group Jüdische Stimme in November 2023. #Berlin’s Culture Minister #JoeChialo ended the center’s contract with the city government, effectively shuttering Oyoun.
They announced: “This decision feels like more than just a closure; it resembles the setting of a precedent that all state-funded institutions may now fear. The implications are far-reaching, impacting the very essence of artistic freedom and expression.”
Never again is for anyone 
"Renowned Jewish American photographer Nan Goldin used the opening of her retrospective exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin to denounce Israel’s genocide and call for global action."
In her speech, Goldin criticized Germany for conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism, stating that the government is using this false equivalency to suppress dissent.
“This is not just an Israeli war. It’s also an American war.” She pointed to the billions in US military aid to Israel and corporate profits tied to the genocide.
Artist and writer James Bridle was unanimously awarded the biennial Architectural Theory Prize by the Schelling Architecture Foundation in June this year for their “outstanding contributions to architectural theory”.
But on Sunday, ahead of the awards ceremony scheduled for today, Bridle was informed the foundation’s committee would not award them with the prize because they had co-signed a call for a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions.
UN expert Francesca Albanese spoke to the UN Palestinian Rights Committee on 31 October 2024. She called on all States to examine their relationships and avoid being #complicit in the crime of genocide being committed by Israel on the Palestinian people in Gaza.
UN report: "Genocide as colonial erasure": https://www.un.org/unispal/document/genocide-as-colonial-erasure-report-francesca-albanese-01oct24/
"The western world and mainstream media have once again jumped on an opportunity to conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism after Israeli football hooligans, protected by the Mossad, wreaked havoc on the streets of Amsterdam, deliberately provoking a harsh response": https://thecradle.co/articles-id/27638
"Everyone compares Trump to Benjamin Netanyahu, and indeed there are many similarities, but no one compares the Democrats in the United States to the center-left in @israel."
"In the United States and in Israel, the liberals evoke sympathy, and are terrifyingly hollow.
"In the United States and in Israel liberals supposedly oppose the war in Gaza, and their opposition is a story of ideological emptiness and moral failure, hypocrisy, and sanctimony."
"Harris lost not only on account of Gaza, but the Democratic administration's conduct on the war certainly didn't help her at the polls."
"Voters do not like trickery and pretense."
Gideon Levy: https://archive.is/Kd9NB#selection-543.0-543.85
Thanks to @mkpetkova @junesim63 @nat
"Let’s take that number-one narrative, which is I was taught to treat everyone the same. You know, actually no one was - or could be taught to treat everyone the same. We can’t do it. We don’t do it."
"A white progressive generally believes niceness is all that it takes. As long as I’m nice and friendly, I’m finished. And niceness not only is not courageous. But niceness is not going to get racism on the table."
NPR’s Jennifer Ludden talks to author Robin DiAngelo about her book, "White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism": https://www.npr.org/2018/08/18/639822895/robin-diangelo-on-white-peoples-fragility
"If you are used to privilege, equality tastes like oppression."
~Sylvie Laurent in "Pauvre petit blanc - Le mythe de la dépossession raciale"
First Worldism—“the loss of the prerogative, only and always, to be the one who transgresses the sovereign boundaries of other states, but never to be in the position of having one’s own boundaries transgressed.”
—Judith Butler, J. (2009). ‘Violence, mourning, politics’, in Harding, J. and Pribram, D. eds., Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader. London: Routledge, pp. 387–402.