Centre for Ethics's video: Andr Brock Black Morpheus: Race in the Technocultural Matrix Ethics of AI in Context

Black Morpheus: Race in the Technocultural Matrix Where does Blackness manifest In the ideology of Western technoculture? Technoculture is the American mythos and ideology; a belief system powering the coercive, political, and carceral relations between culture and technology. Once enslaved, historically disenfranchised, and never deemed literate, Blackness is understood as the object of Western technical and civilizational practices. This presentation is a critical intervention for internet research and science and technology studies (STS), reorienting Western technoculture’s practices of “race-as-technology” to visualize Blackness as technological subjects rather than as “things”. Hence, Black technoculture. André Brock School of Literature, Media, and Communication Georgia Tech