Simone Browne: Keynote at Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence

Keynote lecture at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, "Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence."

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Dark Matters, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Scholar and Feminist Conference, Simone Browne, surveillance

Psalm for the Mismeasured and Unfit

“Psalm for the Mismeasured and Unfit” (Trailer), a performance installation on the medical industrial complex at the 43rd annual Scholar and Feminist Conference

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eugenics, surveillance

“The fake road, its cruel deception, is what we have to abandon”: Normalizing the In/Security State: Police and Prisons

Featuring Jordan Camp, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Christina Heatherton, and Mariame Kaba, moderated by Tina Campt at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, "Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence."

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policing, prison, prison abolition, Scholar and Feminist Conference, state violence, surveillance

“its known and unknown powers / to bind and dissociate”: Forensic Surveillance and the Policing of Biology

Featuring Shoshana Magnet, Cara Page, Rori Rohlfs, and Harriet Washington, moderated by Anthony Ureña at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, "Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence."

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biology, eugenics, policing, policing biology, race science, racism, Scholar and Feminist Conference, surveillance

“in this time of siege for me and mine, mi raza”: Normalizing the In/Security State: Police and Prisons

Featuring Rachel Ida Buff, Inderpal Grewal, Arun Kundnani, and Marlene Nava Ramos, moderated by Manu Vimalassery at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, "Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence."

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militarism, militarized police, normalization, Police Violence, Scholar and Feminist Conference, state violence, surveillance

“they said in the name of self-defense”: Technologies of Surveillance and the Selling of the In/Security State

Featuring Rabab Abdulhadi, Dylan Rodríguez, Nandita Sharma, and Dean Spade, moderated by Craig Willse, at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, "Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence."

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anti-militarism, anti-war, militarism, militarized police, palestine, Palestine solidarity, policing, Scholar and Feminist Conference, surveillance, trans, trans liberation, war

Diana Center, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
February 16-17, 2018

S&F Conference: Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence

Simone Browne, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Inderpal Grewal, Mariame Kaba, Cara Page, Nandita Sharma, and Dean Spade

This year’s Scholar and Feminist Conference will bring together a broad community of thinkers and organizers to grapple with the ever-deepening penetration of surveillance practices into everyday life, and ways to engage in self-defense against the militarized, racist police state’s demands for constant access in the name of “security” and public order.

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borders, Deportation, immigration, police, prison, self-defense, state violence, surveillance, technology

Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway New York, New York
Oct 10, 2017 | 6:00PM

Homes for All, Cages for None: Housing Justice in an Age of Abolition

Christina Heatherton and Craig Willse

In 2016, the Barnard Center for Research on Women assembled a Poverty Working Group to examine the state’s neglect and abandonment of poor people, people of color, and people with disabilities. The group asks how can we deepen our understanding of and resistance to the ways that the neoliberal state and racialized, classed, gendered, and […]

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Christina Heatherton, Craig Willse, homelessness, neoliberalism, poverty, public housing, state violence, surveillance

Scholar and Feminist Online 13.3 - 14.1
Fall 2016

Traversing Technologies

Patrick Keilty and Leslie Regan Shade

In “Traversing Technology,” scholars drawn primarily from the arts and humanities offer close readings of the multifaceted histories, consequences, potential adaptations and mutilations of scientific and technical productions. Uniting these diverse sites of inquiry is the necessity of movement in order to understand or act—the refusal of a god’s eye view frozen in one all seeing perspective. The authors refuse a physical/virtual division, as they map the monstrous meanings of suburban homes, dive into scatalogical biopolitical governmentalities, surface the long gendered pre-history of selfie culture, celebrate trans people of color’s poetic stitching of social wounds, trace the frequent construction of Asian Americans as racialized machines, link the prescient wisdom of the Combahee River Collective to the ways internet architecture imperils black lives, generate new opportunities to infect technology with viral feminist knowledges, and offer up the parasite as a model for our relationship to social networks.

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biopolitics, futurity, gender, race, social networks, surveillance, technology