The Black Technical Object

On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being

The Black Technical Object
Ramon Amaro
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3 May 2022 US
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9783956795633
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A contemplation on the abstruse nature of machine learning, mathematics, and the deep incursion of racial hierarchy. The Black Technical Object aims at introducing the history of statistical analysis and a knowledge of sociogenesis--a system of racism amenable to scientific explanation--into machine learning research as an act of impairing the racial ordering of the world. While machine learning--computer programming designed for taxonomic patterning--provides useful insight into racism and racist behavior, a gap is present in the relationship between machine learning, the racial history of scientific explanation, and the Black lived experience. Ramon Amaro explores how the history of data and statistical analysis provides a clear (and often sudden) grasp of the complex relationship between race and machine learning. Amaro juxtaposes a practical analysis of machine learning with a theory of Black alienation in order to inspire alternative approaches to contemporary algorithmic practice. In doing so, he offers a continuous contemplation on the abstruse nature of machine learning, mathematics, and the deep incursion of racial hierarchy.

Black Technical Object, The: On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being

Ramon Amaro is Lecturer in Art and Visual Cultures of the Global South at University College London. His writing, research and practice emerge at the intersections of Black Study, psychopathology, digital culture, and the critique of computation reason.
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ISBN-13: 9783956795633
Published: 3 May 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Sternberg Press
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 178mm
Width: 114mm
Weight: 369g
Pages: 152

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