The Black Technical Object by Ramon Amaro - ISBN: 9783956795633
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Race, machine learning, and the hidden history within the algorithm.

The Black Technical Object

On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being

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    232 pages

  • Release Date

    24 May 2022

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Summary

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 e…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9783956795633
ISBN-10:3956795636
Author:Ramon Amaro
Publisher:Sternberg Press
Imprint:Sternberg Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:232
Release Date:24 May 2022
Weight:329g
Dimensions:210mm x 132mm x 21mm
Series:Sternberg Press / The Antipolitical
About The Author

Ramon Amaro

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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