Post #1246394

"It is one thing to value technodiversity and designs for the pluriverse; it is quite another to actually work towards it under intense political economic pressures towards homogeneity coming from all sides. Even research grounded in critical refusal of harmful data practices, beautifully exemplified by the Feminist Manifest-No, is not fully liberated from that which it refuses. Nor should it be: it is a reaction against, a response to. Imagine what STS scholarship might be like if we were freed from the need to refuse at all. Would computational systems be so interesting at that point? What about them would remain interesting? What else would capture our attention instead--and shouldn't some of us start to turn our efforts to those things now, before the AI investment bubble erodes the edifice of consensus that AI is self-evidently interesting?" https://4sonline.org/news_manager.php?page=43606 via @laurawatts