AHCS Speaker Series: Simone Browne | "A Field Guide to Surveillance Studies and Blackness"
Simone Browne
University of Texas-Austin聽
"A Field Guide to Surveillance Studies and Blackness"
Abstract: This talk situates blackness as an absented presence in the field of surveillance studies, and questions how a realization of the conditions of blackness鈥攖he historical, the present, and the historical present鈥� can help social theorists understand our contemporary conditions of surveillance.
Bio: Simone Browne is聽Associate Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She聽teaches and researches surveillance studies, digital media and black diaspora studies. Simone is an Executive Board member of HASTAC. She is also a member of Deep Lab, a feminist聽collaborative composed of artists, engineers, hackers, writers, and theorists.