[Commlist] CFP: 4s2019 open panel 'Race and/as technology today'

*4S 2019 Open Panel Call for Papers*

September 4 -7, 2019

New Orleans

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CFP for an open panel at 4S to Commslist. It has an interdisciplinary 
scope, but will be of particular interest to media and communications 
scholars.

*Race and/as technology today*


Thao Phan, University of Melbourne

Scott Wark, University of Warwick


In her seminal essay, “Race and/as Technology”, Wendy H. K. Chun 
proposed that race could be understood as a technology—that is, as 
neither biological nor cultural, human nor machine, mediated nor 
environmental, visible nor invisible, but as a category that organises 
all of these dualisms and many more. Race, she argued, can be thought of 
as a “technique that one uses, even as one is used by it” (38). Using 
this essay and its concerns as a touchstone, this panel will ask how we 
might understand race and/as technology in the present. What is the 
relationship between visibility/invisibility and race and how is it 
mediated? How are emergent technologies of control, such as facial 
recognition, racialised? How might we think categories—like race, 
person, or population—after Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, 
and big data? How might these technologies be understood historically? 
What is the relationship to related categories, such as gender, class or 
ability, in the technologisation of race? How might analyses of culture 
help us to understand race and/as technology? If we adopt Chun’s idea 
that this approach “displaces ontological questions of race” (56), what 
different things might race be made to do, in the present? We want to 
bring together scholars working in any discipline touched by these 
questions to think through what it might mean to consider race and/as 
technology today.


*Deadline: *Feb 1, 2019

*Submissions: *https://www.4s2019.org/accepted-open-panels/

*Conference details: *https://www.4s2019.org/


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