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

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

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The Black Technical Object: On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being Paperback - 2023

by Amaro, Ramon

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Sternberg Press, 2023 Book. New. Paperback.
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On the abstruse nature of machine learning, mathematics, and the deep incursion of racial hierarchy.

To impair the racial ordering of the world, The Black Technical Object introduces the history of statistical analysis and "scientific" racism into research on machine learning. Computer programming designed for taxonomic patterning, machine learning offers useful insights into racism and racist behavior, but its connection to the racial history of science and the Black lived experience has yet to be developed. In this book, Ramon Amaro explores how the history of data and statistical analysis informs the complex relationship between race and machine learning. He juxtaposes a practical analysis of this type of computerized learning with a theory of Black alienation in order to inspire alternative approaches to contemporary algorithmic practice. In doing so, Amaro contemplates the abstruse nature of programming and mathematics, as well as the deep incursion of racial hierarchies.

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Ramon Amaro is Lecturer in Art and Visual Cultures of the Global South at University College London, Department of History of Art. His writings, research, and practice emerge at the intersections of Black Study, digital culture, psychosocial study, and the critique of computational reason.
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