The eleventh session of the Slow Reading Group led by V2_Fellow Renee Turner. The subject is AI & gender inequality.
Against the pace of infinite urgencies surrounding AI and gender inequality, deceleration is embraced to:
· slowly read together
· look at gender inequality & AI, while not reinforcing the binary
· engage in an intersectional analysis (Crenshaw)
· commit to inter/transdisciplinary approaches that do not seek to centre technology but rather situate and challenge it (ethos: Audre Lorde's adage that the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.)
· envision technology in its broadest and entangled sense as neither tool nor interface (Haraway).
· question how fairness and equality are defined and according to whose terms and conditions
· explore the possibilities of refusal – the right not to be datafied
· foster forms of fictioning that engage the speculative imagination to reach outside the restraints of wicked problems and prototype what might be otherwise
· share knowledge by generating a living glossary and bibliography of references (including forms of practices, texts and other resources), while resisting the calcification associated with required reading
· explore the idea of machine pedagogies versus machine learning in order to interrogate what is knowledge acquisition in this context
· search for and acknowledge our blind spots and biases as we move along
· read up to power up (Corita Kent)
· update and alter these aims in light of insights acquired as we move along
Agathe Balayn
Sonia de Jager
Cristina Cochior
Sieta van Horck
Linda Lee
Danae Tapia
Noemi Biro
Anna Laura
Michelle Teran
Renée Turner