Critical Computation 2023

Readings

Week	Required Readings	Further Readings
1	N/A	Design Justice Network Principles, Design Justice Network Can a Programming Language be a Radical Community? (podcast), Artists & Hackers
2	N/A	Race, Sex and Nerds: From Black Geeks to Asian American Hipsters, Ron Eglash
3	N/A	Engineered Inequity: Are Robots Racist?, Race After Technology, Ruha Benjamin Default Discrimination: Is the Glitch Systemic?, Race After Technology, Ruha Benjamin
4	Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time (excerpt) , Ellen Samuels	The Power of Algorithms, Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble In Search of Personalized Time, Taeyoon Choi
5	N/A	Design Thinking is a Rebrand of White Supremacy, Darin Buzon A for Anything, Benedetta Crippa
6	N/A	Woven Memory, the Fabric of Interface, Stephen Monteiro Indigenous Circuits, Lisa Nakamura
7	Choose one chapter from Data Feminism , Catherine D'lgnazio and Lauren F. Klein to read	Dear Data, Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec Feminist Dataset, Caroline Sinders Pattern Discrimination, Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Florian Cramer, and Hito Steyerl Mapping Wikipedia, Michael Mandiberg
8	N/A	Rise of the Videogames Zinesters, Anna Anthropy
9	N/A	A Study Says High Family Income Significantly Increases Likelihood of Becoming an Artist, Hakim Bishara
10	N/A	I'm the Original Voice of Siri, Jessica Ravitz The Automation Charade, Astra Taylor
11	What Can a Body Do? (excerpt) , Sara Hendren	We Are the Original Life Hackers, Liz Jackson Universal Design and the Problem of “Post- Disability” Ideology, Aimi Hamraie
12	Dark Matter: on the Surveillance of Blackness, Branding Blackness (excerpt), Simone Browne	Behind White Shadows, Rosa Menkman The Racist History Behind Facial Recognition, Sahil Chinoy
13	N/A	The Labor of Appearance, Aria Dean Poetics of Relations, Édouard Glissant
14	Consentful Tech Zine, Una Lee and Dan Toliver
15	N/A	Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet Across Indian Country (excerpt), Marisa Elena Duarte
16	N/A	Blockchain Chicken Farm (excerpt), Xiaowei Wang