“I would argue that how we chronicle the connection between ideas is what matters. Genealogies reflect and reproduce power relations. Citational practices are political, especially when we start talking about “innovation” – oppressed people and places are rarely cited for their many inventions.”
― Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
― Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
“Better never means better for everyone … It always means worse, for some.”
― Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
― Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
“As Margaret Atwood writes, “Better never means better for everyone … It always means worse, for some.”
― Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
― Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
“if the structure does not permit dialogue, the structure must be changed.”
― Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
― Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
“But, as Critical Resistance has argued, simply diverting resources in this way is no panacea, because schools and public housing as they currently function are an extension of the PIC: many operate with a logic of carcerality and on policies that discriminate against those who have been convicted of crimes. Pouring money into them as they are will only make them more effective in their current function as institutions of social control.”
― Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
― Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
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