Media
The Harmony Show
Neda and I discuss our book Surrogate Humanity with Amber Hawk Swanson (artist and co-host), Davecat (robosexual/idolator and co-host) and Sidore (synthetik and guest).
Surrogate Futures: Technology, Race, and the Human
In this talk, Kalindi Vora and Neda Atanasoski consider how the surrogate effect of technology within technoliberalism, as they describe it in their book, Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots and the Politics of Technological Futures (2019), comes to bear on recent discussions around technological bias. Assessing how technological design is central to envisioning and shaping different potential futures, they emphasize the importance of thinking beyond bias if we are to understand how racial capitalism undergirds technological design. They also explore radical design politics that disrupt more mainstream uses and visions of technological value.
STS Futures: Bridging the "Two Cultures": Interdisciplinary, Public & DH approaches to STS
Bridging the "Two Cultures". How can humanities’ methods and foci can act as a “bridging discourse” between scientists, culture workers, and the wider public? How can students and scholars engage critically and usefully with science and technology from a humanities point of view? And finally, what might be the implications and importance of bringing together these traditionally separate disciplinary discourses--both within and outside the academy? Speakers (in order of presentation): Lindsay Thomas (U of Miami): "The "Big Humanities": Collaboration and Team-Based Open Research in the Digital Humanities" Abigail Droge (Emory University): "Reading with Scientists" Nicky Rehnberg (UC Santa Barbara): "Alone, I Am Just One Tree: Community Science and the Archangel Tree Archive" Kalindi Vora & Sarah McCullough (UC Davis, Director & Assoc Director of the Feminist Research Institute): "The Science We Are For: Feminist Antiracist STS Approaches to STEM"
Beyond Health: 2021 Feminist Research Institute Theme
Whose health matters? How do we leverage “health” in order to create more just and equitable futures? What are the limitations or dangers of doing so? What is health and what does it do for our imaginations to think through that framing? How does an issue become understood as a health issue? What is at stake in defining an issue as a health issue? How does framing an issue as a health issue shape who is called to the discussion, who is left out, and who is positioned as having answers? And finally, what would it mean to think beyond health?
Inefficient Feeling: Care as Revolutionary Praxis at the End of Society
Kalindi Vora is Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at UC Davis, and Director of the Feminist Research Institute. She previously taught at UC San Diego Ethnic Studies and was affiliated with the Science Studies Program. She is author of Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor (2015; winner of the 2018 Rachel Carson book prize); and with Neda Atanasoski, Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots and the Politics of Technological Futures, (Duke University Press, 2019).
Interview with Kalindi Vora and Sherryl Vint (May 6-7, 2016)
An interview with Kalindi Vora (Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego) and Sherryl Vint (English, University of California, Riverside) conducted by Armin Behroozi (City and Regional Planning, Cornell University), as part of the South Asia Program symposium, “Gujarat/Guatemala: Marketing Care and Speculating Life,” held May 6-7, 2016 at Cornell University.