Critical Computation

schedule

Library

Week	Required Readings	Further Readings
1	Code (excerpt), Charles Petzold The Danger of a Single Story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Design Justice Network Principles, Design Justice Network Race, Sex and Nerds: From Black Geeks to Asian American Hipsters, Ron Eglash Our Beloved Kin: Remapping a New History of King Philip's War, Lisa Brooks
2	Engineered Inequity: Are Robots Racist?, Race After Technology, Ruha Benjamin	Default Discrimination: Is the Glitch Systemic?, Race After Technology, Ruha Benjamin
3	Algorithms of Oppression (excerpt), Safiya Umoja Noble	A Brief History of (Modern) Time, Ian P. Beacock Time in Different Cultures, Exactly What is Time?, Luke Mastin
4	Design Thinking is a Rebrand of White Supremacy, Darin Buzon A for Anything, Benedetta Crippa	Uses of Use, Sara Ahmed Lean Out: the struggle for gender inequality in tech and startup culture, edited by Elissa Shevinsky What Atlanta Can Teach Tech About Cultivating Black Talent, Stephanie Dinkins
5	Tactics and Poetics of Invisible Writing (excerpt), Amy Suo Wu	Woven Memory, The Fabric of Interface, Stephen Monteiro Code Like a Weaver, Kristina Taylor The Hidden History of Magic Eye, the Optical Illusion That Briefly Took Over the World, AIGA Eye on Design, Liz Stinson
6	Facial Weaponization Suite, Zach Blas As If, Ramon Amaro	The Labor of Appearance, Aria Dean The Racist History Behind Facial Recognition, Sahil Chinoy Poetics of Relations, Édouard Glissant
7	A Study Says High Family Income Significantly Increases Likelihood of Becoming an Artist, Hyperallergic My Parents Give me $28,000 a Year, Vox	Return of the Yokai, 99% Invisible, Roman Mars Rise of the Videogames Zinesters, Anna Anthropy
8	Post-Colonial Computing, Kavita Philip, Lilly Irani, and Paul Dourish	The Becoming of Prometheus, The Question Concerning Technology in China, Yuk Hui (En/Ch available)
9	We Are the Original Life Hackers, Liz Jackson Universal Design and the Problem of “Post- Disability” Ideology, Aimi Hamraie	#CriticalAccess, The Disabled List Crip Technoscience Manifesto, Aimi Hamraie & Kelly Fritsch Common Cyborg, Jillian Weise Examined Life (clip) with Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor, directed by Astra Taylor Artificial Advancement, Taeyoon Choi
10	Crip Camp:a Disability Revolution (documentary feature)
11	Consentful Tech Zine, Una Lee and Dan Toliver	Alt-Text as Poetry, Bojana Coklyat and Shannon Finnegan This is Not My Beautiful House, Everest Pipkin The Persistence of Vision, Donna Haraway
12	Choose one chapter from Data Feminism to read, Catherine D'lgnazio and Lauren F. Klein	Feminist Dataset, Caroline Sinders Pattern Discrimination, Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Florian Cramer, and Hito Steyerl Dear Data, Georgia Lupi Mapping Wikipedia, Michael Mandiberg Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman Decolonizing geographies of power, Dallas Hunt, Shaun Stevenson Ring’s Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon's Sprawling Home Surveillance Network, Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra
13	Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet Across Indian Country (excerpt), Marisa Elena Duarte	SubalterNet: Networked Practices from Latin America in Response to the Internet, Heber Rodriguez Lo―TEK. Design by Radical Indigenism, Julia Watson
14	Blockchain Chicken Farm (excerpt), Xiaowei Wang