“We ride rather than drive the innovation wave. Technology will find its inventors, rather than vice versa.”
― 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
“when we identify which people to control, help, change, or emulate as “geniuses,” methods of classification change those who [sic] scientists set out to study.”
― Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
― Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
“Graphic designer Natasha Jen puts it bluntly in her talk “Design Thinking is Bullsh*t,” urging design practitioners to avoid the jargon and buzzwords associated with their field, to engage in more self-criticism, to base their ideas on evidence, and to stop assuming that their five-step process is needed for any and every thing.”
― Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
― Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
“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
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