Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

Castronovo, Russ; Hartman, Saidiya; Sale, Maggie Montesinos

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“…While expositing the differences between substituting and hosting, I align with intersectional feminist scholars who challenge technical abstractions. Instead, they attend to relations between the body and property (Hartman 1997;McKittrick 2006), placing the corporeality of subjugated bodies at the center of social justice in the United States (Pulido and De Lara 2018), grounded in sites of refusal of oppressive systems that undermine life itself (Davis 1972;Weinbaum 2019). These scholars consider the body-self relationships of those they observe and of themselves, to produce accounts of "embodied data" (Ellingson 2017).…”

Section: Dealing With Data Gapsmentioning

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Data Surrogates as Hosts: Politics of Environmental Governance

Sivakumar

2023

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Data-driven environmental governance within the standard regulatory regime routinely relies on unmeasurable, missing, or abjected data. Technocrats typically use data surrogates to alleviate this pervasive problem. By combining feminist technoscience and critical environmental justice approaches, this article argues that data surrogates are far more than fungible substitutes and rely on more than scientific rationality and transcendent objectivity. Through a case of intersecting environmental governance and justice work in the Portside Community in San Diego, this article exposits a broader conceptualization of data surrogates by developing a partial typology of operations they perform: calibrating, weighting, and validating. The politics and labors of these operations are crucial to analyze how data acquire material and discursive power in environmental governance. I propose an analytical shift from examining the work of data surrogates in terms of substituting to one of hosting. This shift reveals and better explains how data surrogates negotiate relationships between body, place, and property across state, market, and civil society actors. Moreover, it demonstrates how data surrogates interrupt the dominant regulatory regime by resisting fungibility through acts of social reproduction. Far from being subordinate to technocratic tools, the work of social reproduction makes governing with scientific and technical instruments both possible and contestable.

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Section: Dealing With Data Gapsmentioning

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“…1 Abjection is a central concept in Black feminist literature referring to the othering of entire populations in the service of capitalism through slavery and other forms of subjection. I'm particularly drawing from the conceptualizations of Saidiya Hartman (1997) and Jodi A. Byrd (2011).…”

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Data Surrogates as Hosts: Politics of Environmental Governance

Sivakumar

2023

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“…Hortense J. Spillers (1987), Saidiya V. Hartman (1997), and Zakkiyah Iman Jackson (2020), for instance, illustrate how US chattel slavery actively and continuously denied Black slaves the capacity for autonomy and consent in order to treat them as property incapable of the self-possession granted to white subjects under a humanism shaped through white supremacy. US chattel slavery bolstered a self-possessed white subject whose autonomy was contrasted by the captive Black body controlled by others (Atanasoski and Vora 2019, 193).…”

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Scripting Consenting Fictions in Sex Techology Imaginaries

Nguyen

2023

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This article examines how the intended and implied uses and users of emerging commercial sex technologies negotiate understandings of sexual consent as a social fiction articulated as contractual-yet-contingent autonomy and transactional access that is framed as a prerequisite obstacle to sexual gratification. To do so, I analyze the design and marketing of consent-recording applications and sex robots programmed to refuse consent. I draw on science and technology studies, media studies, and feminist and queer theory to investigate both how sexual consent is imaginatively scripted into digital technologies and how imagined digital technologies suggest that we approach and value sexual consent. My analysis foregrounds critical readings of the design imaginaries of promissory digital technologies—speculatively suggested through design and marketing materials—to situate them within cultural politics of consent and digital technology as they express desires for specific worldbuilding fantasies about gender and sex.

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“…These circulating affects link Blackness with fungibility and decay, and whiteness with life, virility, and capacity. 19 This legacy of antiblackness and white supremacy loom in the present and provoke associations that animate life and make meaning through 'skewed life chances, limited access to health and education, premature death, incarceration, and impoverishment'. 20 I engage with affect theory to interpret the process by which antiblackness coheres public sentiments on gentrification.…”

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Allure in the uninhabitable: on affect, space, and Blackness in gentrifying Philadelphia

Lee

2022

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This article engages with affect theory and Black feminist interrogations of the human to examine the conflicting feelings evoked by the gentrification process. Black feminist theorists have long demonstrated how histories linger, shape, and make meaning in the present. Affect theory offers further insight into this process by illustrating how we imbue people, places, and things with meaning. This article links these perspectives to address how associations such as economic development/life, Blackness/death, and the uninhabitable/nonhuman shape public sentiments on gentrification and space more broadly. This discussion centers on two urban development projects in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a city that is, like many American cities, racially segregated. This analysis attends to how antiblackness circulates to imbue space and bodies with racialized meaning and resonance. I advance that while this circulation of affects is devastatingly powerful, antiblackness does not circulate uncontested or capture all elements of Black life and Black place-making.

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Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

Cited by 42 publications

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Data Surrogates as Hosts: Politics of Environmental Governance

Data Surrogates as Hosts: Politics of Environmental Governance

Scripting Consenting Fictions in Sex Techology Imaginaries

Allure in the uninhabitable: on affect, space, and Blackness in gentrifying Philadelphia

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