[-empyre-] 'On Racial Violence, Love and Information, Brexit and Dramaturgy of Data’

[AAR]

I have been scrambling to catch up with all the thoughtful, interesting and erudite posts. It seems we are all addressing WHAT is made transparent with the data, and HOW it is made evident, with the danger of built in biases in methodologies. I am reminded of a very simple but powerful mapping from the activist black artist, Paul Rucker, which simply overlaid the distribution of plantation slave holdings and contemporary prison systems in the Mississippi Water Basin. This is now the same region being mercilessly exploited by frackers, at the expense of the richest farmland on the US continent. I think it’s worth comparing examples across the gender and racial spectrum, to possibly narrow down what we uniquely have to contribute as Feminists, altho, honestly, I am a bit stumped about what conclusions might be drawn. I would be very glad if someone could put their fingers on some bullet points that might distinguish the results of a Feminist point of view on data from the observations or effects of other interest groups..


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Aviva Rahmani, PhD
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