“Sample | Signal | Strobe: Haunting, Social Media, and Black Digitality”
What kinds of critical structures might be distilled from thinking about technological adoption as itself a kind of Black cultural practice, a practice wherein “the past and future are not cut off from the present” (Ayewa and Phillips)? What might it mean to articulate techne as endemic to African American experience, even if so doing means resetting how we describe or imagine the technical emergence of digital technologies? Understanding the digital as both descriptive and generative of African American experiences of memory, space, and time resets the chronology for what we typically postulate as the technical device emergence of “the digital.”
Debates in Digital Humanities. eds. Matthew Gold and Lauren Klein (U. Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, 2019)
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