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Seeing, Naming, Knowing

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In a collection of six essays, the social and political implications of increasing technological inventions is unfurled. It argues for contemplative and critical questioning of evolving socio- political realities borne by the presence of new, and newer technology in our lives. These essays foreground such issues of visibility and naming, as they provide an awareness to an otherwise illegible system at play in the machines and machinic ideology allowed to mediate and translate the world today.

Nora N. Khan is a writer. She writes criticism on emerging issues within digital visual culture, experimental art and music practices, and philosophy of emerging technology. She is a professor at RISD, Digital and Media, where she teaches graduate students four courses: critical theory and artistic research, critical writing, both for artists and designers, and history of digital media. She is a longtime editor at Rhizome, and is currently editor of Prototype, the book of Google’s Artist and Machine Intelligence Group forthcoming in 2019.

51 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2019

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May 2, 2024

“¿Como cambiaría nuestra capacidad de ver, nombrar y saber si la práctica de la tecnología no estuviera tan inexorablemente enmarcada como la constitución de la observación objetiva de fenómenos, sino más bien, como la creadora de una ilusión de un mundo empírico, medible, estable y separado?”

Muy bueno. ¿Qué busca el ojo tecnológico que mira? (¿Qué se le ha indicado que busque, cómo clasifica? ¿Cómo nombra lo que ve?) Mientras, se reduce la complejidad humana con fines estadísticos y se homogeneiza en grupos para hacer predicciones.
Es la creación de una simulación, que a su vez también crea realidades pero bajo la idea de que son neutrales, cuando no pueden serlo porque desde donde se sitúa la visión ya hay una ideología. Pero ¿por qué seguir pretendiendo, incluso apelando por una visión neutral cuando nunca la ha habido? Nombrar, clasificar ya es parte del sesgo.
La tecnología no solo es la creación de herramientas sino también la creación de metáforas.
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58 reviews19 followers
June 27, 2020
if you read one (1) critical essay on technology this year -- please, please make it this
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October 24, 2024
Oh man, the horrors of technocapitalism are something else
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