Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics

Wasson, Curtis; Muñóz, José

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“…The centuries-old tendency of Western epistemology to create a division between a Subject and a "Other" is at the heart of the violence inflicted by the unintended consequences of new media and technology, including AI systems (Arendt, 1958). Non-Western, non-white, non-male, poor, queer, transgender, dis/abled, non-Christian, non-capitalist, un-educated, subaltern, un-housed, unfree: people outside the dominant group are often perceived to be an obstacle in tech-progressive utopias and discarded as "surplus humanity," an afterthought, an impediment (Said, 1979;Muñoz, 1999). The Other is described as un-technological, or as only using technology for nefarious purposes, and therefore uncivilized, even though these communities are in truth the most heavily technologized for the purpose of their surveillance and control (Abdurahman and Ghoshal, 2021;Mavhunga, 2014).…”

Section: Theorizing the Faces Roots And Othering Violence Of Ai Empirementioning

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Challenging AI Empire: Toward a Decolonial and Queer Framework of Data Resurgence

Tacheva¹,

Ramasubramanian²

2023

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In the age of AI, when models like DALL-E and ChatGPT impact countless aspects of our lives, the dehumanizing and harmful features of AI that have plagued data science since its inception continue resulting in the routine erasure, exploitation, and subjugation of people of color, Indigenous people, women, queer, non-binary, immigrant, dis/abled, and non-Western people. Far from a “glitch” or unintentional error, these endemic issues are a function of the systemic oppression upon which the global AI industry is built. Rooted in colonialism, heteropatriarchy, and racial capitalism, this perpetual oppression shows that we live not simply in the Age of AI but in the Age of AI Empire. Since Big Data and algorithms only further reinforce the logics of hegemony, extractivism, surveillance, and subjugation which drive AI Empire, we argue that reforming AI from within the same oppressive system that created it can do little beyond providing band-aid solutions. Instead, to advance justice, we must radically transform our ideas about data and technology and develop them from the bottom-up, from the perspectives of those who stand the most risk of being harmed. Rather than being perceived as “vulnerable,” the people and communities most directly impacted by AI are more properly understood as demonstrating technological ingenuity, alterity, sustained resistances, and refusals against AI Empire – practices we call Data Resurgence. Through the lessons learned from Indigenous, decolonial, and queer communities, we show that data resurgence can be a powerful collective response to AI Empire based on Anti-coloniality, Relationality, Sovereignty, and Liberatory Praxis.

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Section: Theorizing the Faces Roots And Othering Violence Of Ai Empirementioning

confidence: 99%

Challenging AI Empire: Toward a Decolonial and Queer Framework of Data Resurgence

Tacheva¹,

Ramasubramanian²

2023

Preprint

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“…For queer Iranians, to use José Esteban Muñoz's (1999) term, survival requires explicit masking of all that is political not to (further) instigate the inquisitive machinery of Iranian cyber police. Based on the definition of implicit activism discussed in the introduction, I consider the creation of the channel and the very creation of user profiles implicit acts of activism.…”

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Queering Iran, digitally: Implicit activism and LGBTQI+ dating on Telegram

Rahbari

2022

Tijdschrift Voor Genderstudies

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“…Disidentificatory subjects take on norms of dominant culture, "sign[s] to which [they do] not belong", in ways that resignify those norms and uncover their "universalizing and exclusionary machinations" in the service of empowering marginalised communities (Butler, 2011, p. 219;Muñoz, 1999, p. 31). Both Butler (2011) and Muñoz (1999) identify the ways that practices of disidentification can reshape discourse and envision new worlds for queer and gender nonnormative people, especially those of colour.…”

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Identities and Intimacies on Social Media

Krijnen¹,

Nixon²,

Ravenscroft³

et al. 2022

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This edited collection illuminates the scope with which identities and intimacies interact on a wide range of social media platforms.A varied range of international scholars examine the contexts of very different social media spaces, with topics ranging from whitewashing and memes, parental discourses in online activities, Spotify as an intimate social media platform, neoliberalisation of feminist discourses, digital sex work, social media wars in trans debates and 'BimboTok'. The focus is on their acceleration and impact due to the specificities of social media in relation to identities, intimacies within the broad 'political' sphere. The geographic range of case study material reflects the global impact of social media, and includes data from

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Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics

Cited by 48 publications

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Challenging AI Empire: Toward a Decolonial and Queer Framework of Data Resurgence

Challenging AI Empire: Toward a Decolonial and Queer Framework of Data Resurgence

Queering Iran, digitally: Implicit activism and LGBTQI+ dating on Telegram

Identities and Intimacies on Social Media

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