The carceral state and its machine learning extensions continue older technologies of dispossession.

Evidence

[Equity + AI + Communication] Ella has powers; her brother Kev is incarcerated. Onyebuchi binds Black radical tradition to speculative tech: predictive policing, biometric prison surveillance, and a near-future Watts shaped by both. Ella’s clairvoyance is a counter-surveillance, a Black archive of grief that algorithmic systems try to flatten. The novel synthesizes AI infrastructures with anti-Black state violence and the communicative work of memory, kinship, and rage. A short, incandescent book that argues the carceral state and its machine learning extensions are continuous with older technologies of dispossession. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 735

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Browne’s surveillance theory of Black bodies and data colonialism scholarship in this same curriculum. — connects to: Abolitionist analysis exposes the prison-industrial-AI complex as one system — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2601; Platform data extraction continues historical colonialism’s logic of appropriation — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 398

Related

• Abolitionist analysis exposes the prison-industrial-AI complex as one system (similarity 0.78)
• Systems of thought become prisons that are easily made, applied, and guarded (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Abolitionist analysis exposes the prison-industrial-AI complex as one system #expands (0.85) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 2601
• Platform data extraction continues historical colonialism’s logic of appropriation #corroborates (0.75) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 398