Informatics of Domination

Informatics of Domination

  • Autor: Blas, Zach; Jue, Melody; Rhee, Jennifer; Haraway, Donna J.
  • Editor: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9781478060581
  • Lloc de publicació:  Durham , United States
  • Any de publicació digital: 2025
  • Mes: Març
  • Pàgines: 344
  • Idioma: Anglés
Informatics of Domination is an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the twenty-first century. The volume takes its name from a chart in Donna J. Haraway’s canonical 1985 essay “A Manifesto for Cyborgs.” Haraway theorizes the informatics of domination as a feminist, diagrammatic concept for situating power and a world system from which the figure of the cyborg emerges. Informatics of Domination builds on Haraway’s chart as an open structure for thought, inviting fifty scholars, artists, and creative writers to unfold new perspectives. Their writings take on a variety of forms, such as essays on artificial intelligence, disability and protest, and transpacific imaginaries; conversations with an AI trained on Black oral history; a three-dimensional response to Mexico-US border tensions; hand-drawn images on queer autotheory; ecological fictions about gut microbiomes and wet markets; and more. Together, the writings take up the unfinished structure of the chart in order to proliferate critiques of white capitalist patriarchal power with the study of information systems, networks, and computation today. This volume includes an afterword by Haraway.

Contributors. Dalida María Benfield, Zach Blas, Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone, micha cárdenas, Amy Sara Carroll, Shu Lea Cheang, Jian Neo Chen, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Stephanie Dinkins, Ricardo Dominguez, Ashley Ferro-Murray, Matthew Fuller, Jacob Gaboury, Jennifer Gabrys, Alexander R. Galloway, Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Donna J. Haraway, Eva Hayward, Stefan Helmreich, Kathy High, Leon J. Hilton, Ho Rui An, Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, Tung-Hui Hu, Caroline A. Jones, Melody Jue, Homay King, Larissa Lai, Lawrence Lek, Esther Leslie, Alexis Lothian, Isadora Neves Marques, Radha May (Elisa Giardina-Papa, Nupur Mathur, and Bathsheba Okwenje), Shaka McGlotten, Mahan Moalemi, madison moore, Astrida Neimanis, Bahar Noorizadeh, Luciana Parisi, Thao Phan, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Rita Raley, Patricia Reed, Jennifer Rhee, Bassem Saad, Ashkan Sepahvand, Justin Talplacido Shoulder, Lucy Suchman, Ollie Zhang
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Chart of Transitions / Zach Blas, Melody Jue, and Jennifer Rhee
  • 1. Representation—Simulation—Generation / Rita Raley
  • 2. Bourgeois Novel, Realism—Science Fiction, Post-modernism—Visionary Fiction, Cataclysm / Alexis Lothian
  • 3. White Capitalist Patriarchy—Informatics of Domination / Radha May (Elisa Giardina-Papa, Nupur Mathur and Bathsheba Okwenje)
  • 4. Organism—Biotic Component / Leon J. Hilton
  • 5. Depth, Integrity—Surface, Boundary—Circulation, Residence Time / Eva Hayward and Stefan Helmreich
  • 6. Heat—Noise / Ollie Zhang
  • 7. White Capitalist Patriarchy—Informatics of Domination / Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart
  • 8. Biology as Clinical Practice—Biology as Inscription—Biological Transmutation-Adaptation / Kathy High
  • 9. Physiology—Communications Engineering / Esther Leslie
  • 10. Small Group—Subsystem / Lawrence Lek
  • 11. Perfection—Optimization—Absolution / Alexander R. Galloway
  • 12. Eugenics—Population Control / Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone
  • 13. Decadence, Magic Mountain—Obsolescence, Future Shock—Speculation, Cosmopolis / Bahar Noorizadeh and Bassem Saad
  • 14. Hygiene—Stress Management—Procrastination / Mahan Moalemi
  • 15. White Capitalist Patriarchy—Informatics of Domination / Larissa Lai
  • 16. Microbiology, Tuberculosis—Immunology, AIDS—Epigenetics, Body Burdens / Isadora Neves Marques
  • 17. Organic Division of Labor—Ergonomics/Cybernetics of Labor—Inorganic Division of Labor / Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
  • 18. Functional Specialization—Modular Construction—Object Orientation / Jacob Gaboury
  • 19. Reproduction—Replication / Luciana Parisi
  • 20. White Capitalist Patriarchy—Informatics of Domination / Ashkan Sepahvand
  • 21. Organic Sex Role Specialization—Optimal Genetic Strategies / Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Luiza Prado de O. Martins
  • 22. Biological Determinism—Evolutionary Inertia, Constraints—Future Folklore / Ashley Ferro-Murray and Justin Talplacido Shoulder
  • 23. Community Ecology—Ecosystem—Automated Environments / Jennifer Gabrys
  • 24. Racial Chain of Being—Neo-imperialism, United Nations Humanism—the More Things Change-the More Things Change / Shaka McGlotten
  • 25. White Capitalist Patriarchy—Informatics of Domination / Jian Neo Chen
  • 26. Scientific Management in Home/Factory—Global Factory/Electronic Cottage / Ho Rui An
  • 27. Family/Market/Factory—Women in the Integrated Circuit—Feminist Corpus of Organismic Art / Caroline A. Jones
  • 28. Family Wage—Comparable Worth / Dalida María Benfield
  • 29. Public/Private—Cyborg Citizenship / Amy Sara Carroll and Ricardo Dominguez, with contributions from micha cárdenas on behalf of Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0
  • 30. Nature/Culture—Fields of Difference—Composting / Jennifer Mae Hamilton and Astrida Neimanis
  • 31. Cooperation—Communications Enhancement—Algorithmic Care / Stephanie Dinkins
  • 32. White Capitalist Patriarchy—Informatics of Domination / madison moore
  • 33. Freud—Lacan—Bergson / Homay King
  • 34. Sex—Genetic Engineering / Shu Lea Cheang and Matthew Fuller
  • 35. Labor—Robotics / Lucy Suchman
  • 36. Mind—Artificial Intelligence / Ana Teixeira Pinto
  • 37. World War II—Star Wars—War as Big Data / Tung-Hui Hu
  • 38. White Capitalist Patriarchy—Informatics of Domination / Thao Phan
  • Afterword: Pandemics of Transformation for Livable Worlds / Donna J. Haraway
  • Epilogue: Interpreting Information / Patricia Reed
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

Matèrias