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My Constellation is Space: Towards a Theory of Black Cyberculture

Published: Dec. 10, 2018, 5:46 p.m.

b'Technology is the American mythos (Dinerstein 2006); a belief system powering the relations between\\u2014and politics of\\u2014culture and technology. In the Western context, technoculture incorporates Whiteness, White racial ideology, and modernist technological beliefs. This presentation is a critical intervention for internet research and science and technology studies (STS), reorienting \\u201crace-as-technology\\u201d (Chun 2009) to incorporate Blackness as technological subjects rather than as \\u201cthings."\\n\\nUtilizing critical technocultural discourse analysis (Brock 2018), Afro-optimism, and libidinal economic theory, this presentation employs Black Twitter as an exemplar of Black cyberculture: digital practice and artifacts informed by a Black aesthetic.\\n\\nLearn more about this event here:\\nhttps://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2018-12-04/my-constellation-space-towards-theory-black-cyberculture'