Dr Matt سپهر Mahmoudi

@DocMattMoudi
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📝 ‘Migrants in the Digital Periphery’ for Uni. Of California Press, ‘Resisting Borders+Tech’ @haymarketbooks Head of the Silicon Valley Initiative @AmnestyTech. Assistant Professor @camdighum Views=own

I am now speeding ahead towards a Feb ‘25 publication of ‘Migrants in the Digital Periphery’! 🙏🏽

If you’re interested in the ways in which Silicon Valley logics are bringing violent borders closer to cities, in service of racial capital, this one is for you 👇🏽

https://www.ucpress.edu/books/migrants-in-the-digital-periphery/paper

Migrants in the Digital Periphery by Matt Mahmoudi - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

University of California Press

Head over to Inquest for @ruha9 stunning opening for #Resisting #Borders+#Tech

“these advancements scale #colonial efforts of times past to enclose and condemn communities to a life of performing free labor and generating value or capital”

@haymarketbooks

https://inquest.org/borders-and-bytes/

Borders and Bytes | Ruha Benjamin | INQUEST

So-called “smart” borders are just more sophisticated sites of racialized surveillance and violence. We need abolitionist tools to counter them.

Inquest

We're hosting an online launch with our incredible contributors, @ruha9, @marwasf, J. Carlos Lara Gálvez, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Feb 15th, 7 PM GMT/2 PM ET, and you don't want to miss out on this one! 🔥 Indebted to these phenomenal thinkers

@haymarketbooks

With advance copies in hand+severe disbelief, Mizue, Coline, and my dorky self invite you to check out our edited volume with @haymarketbooks https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2094-resisting-borders-and-technologies-of-violence
– in it we dialogue with activists across ponds who are chipping away at borders and their tech manifestations ✊🏽
Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence

haymarketbooks.org

In which @[email protected] and I join forces in an Avengers-level team-up ... to discuss where the AI discourse falls short, and why we should be asking whether certain tools should even be built, the policies they mask, and the rights they violate.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1533115958

‎Me, Myself, and AI on Apple Podcasts

‎Technology · 2023

Apple Podcasts
Look who I found chilling on a shelf with Ta-Nahisi Coates and Angela Davis at @[email protected] in Copenhagen, @[email protected] 👀🔥

Just a @[email protected] out here doing it again, with @[email protected], including reflections and dilemmas that will be far too relatable to a lot of us, and remain yet unspoken. A must read!

RT @[email protected]

What does it mean for junior scholars to work in the heavily industry funded field of "AI Ethics"? - @[email protected] & I draw from our PhD experiences to detail tricky choices, no-win situations, and friendship & feminist refusal as ways forward in this new paper.

#fundingmatters

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/C___CS/status/1602592914177236997

Dr. Corinne Cath-Speth on Twitter

“What does it mean for junior scholars to work in the heavily industry funded field of "AI Ethics"? - @farbandish & I draw from our PhD experiences to detail tricky choices, no-win situations, and friendship & feminist refusal as ways forward in this new paper. #fundingmatters”

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