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s from the social to the individual and vice versa cover to elizabeth a wilson s affect and artificial intelligence j lorand matory s the fetish revisited looks at a particular section of the history of european atlantic and afro atlantic conceptual engagement namely the place where afro atlantic religious and spiritual practices were taken up and repackaged by white german men matory demonstrates that marx and freud took the notion of the fetish and repurposed its meaning and intent further arguing that this is a product of the both of the positionality of both of these men in their historical and social contexts both marx and freud matory says jewish men of potentially indeterminate ethnicity who could have been read as mulatto and whose work was designed to place them in the good graces of the white supremacist or at least dominantly hierarchical power structure in which they lived matory combines historiography anthropology ethnography oral history critical engagement marxist and freudian theory and religious studies and personal memoir to show that the fetish is mutually a constituting category one rendered out of the intersection of individuals groups places needs and objects further he argues by trying to use the fetish to mark out a category of primitive savagery both freud and marx actually succeeded in making fetishes of their own theoretical frameworks both in the original sense and their own pejorative senses continue reading criptiques and a dying colonialism march 25 2020 damien caitlin wood s 2014 edited volume criptiques consists of 25 articles essays poems songs or stories primarily in the first person all of which are written from disabled people s perspectives both the titles and the content are meant to be provocative and challenging to the reader and especially if that reader is not themselves disabled as editor caitlin wood puts it in the introduction criptiques is a daring space designed to allow disabled people to create and inhabit their own feelings and expressions of their lived experiences as such there s no single methodology or style here and many of the perspectives contrast or even conflict with each other in their intentions and recommendations the 1965 translation of frantz fanon s a dying colonialism on the other hand is a single coherent text exploring the clinical psychological and sociological implications of the algerian revolution fanon uses soldiers first person accounts as well as his own psychological and medical training to explore the impact of the war and its tactics on the individual psychologies the familial relationships and the social dynamics of the algerian people arguing that the damage and horrors of war and colonialism have placed the algerians and the french in a new relational mode image a copy of the 1961 paperback edition of frantz fanon s a dying colonialism featuring a sea of dark skinned people with upraised hands coloured in diagonal bands of orange red and magenta continue reading selfhood coloniality african atlantic religion and interrelational cutlure march 18 2020 damien in ras michael brown s african atlantic cultures and the south carolina lowcountry brown wants to talk about the history of the cultural and spiritual practices of african descendants in the american south to do this he traces discusses the transport of central western and west central african captives to south carolina in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries finally lightly touching on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries brown explores how these african peoples brought maintained and transmitted their understandings of spiritual relationships between the physical land of the living and the spiritual land of the dead and from there how the notions of the african simbi spirits translated through a particular region of south carolina in kelly oliver s the colonization of psychic space she constructs and argues for a new theory of subjectivity and individuation one predicated on a radical forgiveness born of interrelationality and reconciliation between self and culture oliver argues that we have neglected to fully explore exactly how sublimation functions in the creation of the self saying that oppression leads to a unique form of alienation which never fully allows the oppressed to learn to sublimate to translate their bodily impulses into articulated modes of communication and so they cannot become a full individual only ever struggling against their place in society never fully reconciling with it these works are very different so obviously to achieve their goals brown and oliver lean on distinct tools methodologies and sources brown focuses on the techniques of religious studies as he examines a religious history historiography anthropology sociology and linguistic and narrative analysis he explores the written records and first person accounts of enslaved peoples and their captors as well as the contextualizing historical documents of black liberation theorists who were contemporary to the time frame he discusses oliver s project is one of social psychology and she explores it through the lenses of freudian and lacanian psychoanalysis social construction theory hegelian dialectic and the works of franz fanon she is looking to build psycho social analysis that takes both the social and the individual into account fundamentally asking the question how do we belong to the social as singular continue reading cyborg theology and an anthropology of robots and ai march 13 2020 damien scott midson s cyborg theology and kathleen richardson s an anthropology of robots and ai both trace histories of technology and human machine interactions and both make use of fictional narratives as well as other theoretical techniques the goal of midson s book is to put forward a new understanding of what it means to be human an understanding to supplant the myth of a perfect edenic state and the various disciplines dichotomous oppositions of human and other this new understanding midson says exists at the intersection of technological theological and ecological contexts and he argues that an understanding of the conceptual category of the cyborg can allow us to understand this assemblage in a new way that is all of the categories of human animal technological natural and more are far more porous than people tend to admit and their boundaries should be challenged this understanding of the cyborg gives us the tools to do so richardson on the other hand seeks to argue that what it means to be human has been devalued by the drive to render human capacities and likenesses into machines and that this drive arises from the male dominated and otherwise socialized spaces in which these systems are created the more we elide the distinction between the human and the machine the more we will harm human beings and human relationships midson s training is in theology and religious studies and so it s no real surprise that he primarily uses theological exegesis and specifically an exegesis of genesis creation stories but he also deploys the tools of cyborg anthropology specifically donna haraway s 1991 work on cyborgs sociology anthropology and comparative religious studies he engages in interdisciplinary narrative analysis and comparison exploring the themes from several pieces of speculative fiction media and the writings of multiple theorists from several disciplines continue reading bodyminds self transformations and situated selfhood october 11 2019 damien back in the spring i read and did a critical comparative analysis on both cressida j heyes self transformations foucault ethics and normalized bodies and dr sami schalk s bodyminds reimagined dis ability race and gender in black women s speculative fiction each of these texts aims to explore conceptions of modes of embodied being and the ways the exterior pressure of societal norms impacts what are seen as normal or acceptable bodies for heyes that exploration takes the form of three case studies the hermeneutics of transgender individuals especially trans women the askeses self discipline practices of organized weight loss dieting programs and attempts to represent the subjectivity of cosmetic surgery patients schalk s site of interrogation is black women speculative fiction authors and the ways in which their writing illuminates new understandings of race gender and what schalk terms dis ability both heyes and schalk focus on popular culture and they both center gender as a valence of investigation because the embodied experience of women in western society is the crux point for multiple intersecting pressures continue reading colonialism and the technologized other july 10 2019 damien one of the things i m did this past spring was an independent study a vehicle by which to move through my dissertation s tentative bibliography at a pace of around two books at time every two weeks and to write short comparative analyses of the texts these books covered intersections of philosophy psychology theology machine consciousness and afro atlantic magico religious traditions i thought my reviews might be of interest here my first two books in this process were frantz fanon s black skin white masks and david j gunkel s the machine question and while i didn t initially have plans for the texts to thematically link the first foray made it pretty clear that patterns would emerge whether i consciously intended or not image of a careworn copy of frantz fanon s black skin white masks showing a full on image of a black man s face wearing a white anonymizing eye mask in choosing both fanon s black skin white masks and gunkel s the machine question i was initially worried that they would have very little to say to each other however on reading the texts i instead found myself struck by how firmly the notions of otherness and alterity were entrenched throughout both each author for very different reasons and from within very different contexts explores the preconditions the ethical implications and a course of necessary actions to rectify the coming to be of otherness continue reading review of nick harkaway s gnomon january 6 2019 damien last year i was given and read nick harkaway s gnomon and i ve wanted to take a little time to describe to you why you should read it if you haven t already gnomon starts with an investigator in london looking into the death of someone in the course of what should have been a routine investigation a woman was strapped into a chair and her mind was probed with drugs and machines to learn the truth of who she was and whether she posed a threat to the city mielikki neith works for the witness an automated algorithmic learning and surveillance system tied into a systema dn series of networked devices across london s populace creating and enabling the ultimate democracy citizens are engaged and connected to the laws status and operations of their country in real time and it is through this system that neith is assigned to the task of investigating diana hunter s death from there things get very strange very fast as the real time recording of hunter s mind under interrogation unfolds in neith s consciousness a tool used by witness service to maximize transparency and understanding neith finds more than just hunter s mind she also the life story of another as the story unfolds it actually doesn t it refolds mountain folds and valley folds through time and space and placeness and that gets ultimately to what i want to say to you about what nick harkaway has done here cover of nick harkaway s gnomon here are some things that are true about gnomon this book is and is about magic machine consciousness and communities of resistance in the weirdest ways possible it is exactly 666 pages long this book has four or five or six main threads and it weaves all of them around and through all of them each enveloping and enfolding each wrapping around the outside only to then traverse it and find that you are inside of and beneath the next layer in the line the entire book resonates with borges hofstadter danielewski butler and leguin without imitation each one of these personages appears or seems to appear but just when you think you re sure how they ll be seen they are not there like a shark fin in the ocean that becomes and always was the wave of the sea you re swimming in and then again or maybe never churns and is the shark no less deeply and immediately important for the reminder of what is in there with you and quietly unsettling for upending what you think you know gnomon is the kind of thing that you know is behaving as intended when one of the metaphors similes analogies you ve decided to use to describe it shows up in it the day after you think of it it is almost impossible to spoil this book without telling you literally all of the events of this book but i also don t want to colour your intake too much other than to say that this book is important there is mystery in it and there s art it is a masterful thing and if all you see is the surface plot of it then you ve missed the central conceit of the thing if you have not already done so definitely get it when you get a chance nick harkaway s gnomon is available from penguin books pieces on machine consciousness may 15 2018 damien late last month i was at theorizing the web in nyc to moderate panel b3 bot phenomenology in which i was very grateful to moderate a panel of people i was very lucky to be able to bring together johnathan flowers emma stamm and robin zebrowski were my interlocutors in a discussion about the potential nature of nonbiological phenomenology machine consciousness what robots might feel i led them through with questions like what do you take phenomenology to mean and what do you think of the possibility of a machine having a phenomenology of its own we discussed different definitions of language and communication and body and unfortunately didn t have a conversation about how certain definitions of those terms mean that what would be considered language between cats would be a cat communicating via signalling to humans it was a really great conversation and the live stream video for this is here and linked below for now but it may go away at some point to be replaced by a static youtube link when i know that that s happened i will update links and embeds here read the rest of nonhuman and nonbiological phenomenology at a future worth thinking about additionally i have another quote about the philosophical and sociopolitical implications of machine intelligence in this extremely well written piece by k g orphanides at wired uk from the article williams a specialist in the ethics and philosophy of nonhuman consciousness argues that such systems need to be built differently to avoid a a corporate race for the best threat analysis and response algorithms which will be likely to see the world as a zero sum game where only one side wins this is not a perspective suited to devise...