The Black technical object : on machine learning and the aspiration of Black being / Ramon Amaro

Author: Amaro, Ramon
Additional Titles: On machine learning and the aspiration of Black being
Published: London : Sternberg Press, [2022]
Copyright Date: ©2022
Physical Description: 230 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

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Series

On the antipolitical ; v.2.

Contents

Black psychic and machinic alienation -- On the audacity of black aspiration -- As if: Critical thoughts on gaining access to black aspiration -- Sociogeny and the recapitulation of radicalized being -- A study on the calculation of the ordinary racialized object -- Machine learning and a thousand manifestations of the ordinary object -- Neural mimicry and early learning through Race Play -- Where all things are bound by race and data -- Towards a metaphysical correction of simple substances and ideal things -- The radical origination of divine black objects -- A correction of metaphysics and the concept of black substance.

Summary

To impair the racial ordering of the world, The Black Technical Object introduces the history of statistical analysis and "scientific" racism into research on machine learning. Computer programming designed for taxonomic patterning, machine learning offers useful insights into racism and racist behavior, but its connection to the racial history of science and the Black lived experience has yet to be developed. In this book, Ramon Amaro explores how the history of data and statistical analysis informs the complex relationship between race and machine learning. He juxtaposes a practical analysis of this type of computerized learning with a theory of Black alienation in order to inspire alternative approaches to contemporary algorithmic practice. In doing so, Amaro contemplates the abstruse nature of programming and mathematics, as well as the deep incursion of racial hierarchies.

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ISBN

3956795636 (paperback)
9783956795633 (paperback)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references.

Endowment Note

Hrinya Family Libraries Endowment for the School of Information Sciences and Technology

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