Burn, dream and reboot!
Helen V. Pritchard, Eric Snodgrass, Romi Ron Morrison, Loren Britton, Joana Moll · 2020
Whether one is speaking of barbed wire, the assembly line or computer operating systems, the history of coercive technologies for the automation of tasks has focused on optimization, determinate outcomes and an ongoing disciplining of components and bodies. Automated technologies of the present emerge and are marked by this lineage of coercive modes of implementation, whose scarred history of techniques of discrimination, exploitation and extraction point to an archive of automated injustices in computing, a history that continues to charge present paradigms and practices of computing.