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0dense ([personal profile] 0dense) wrote2019-12-19 12:07 am
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Paper for seminar in AI is in!!! 2.2kish words on the way that siri / cortana / alexa are artificial programs being sold as gendered labor, including but not limited to citations on: 
  • Chalmers, David. (2018). The Virtual and the Real. Disputatio. 9. Pp.309-352. 10.1515/disp-2017-0009.  
  • Criado Perez, Caroline. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. New York: 
  • Abrams Press, 2019. 
  • Hooks, Bell. Feminist theory: from margin to center. New York London: Routledge, 2015. 
  • Manne, Kate. Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny. Oxford UP, 2018. 
  • Wodehouse, P. G. The world of Jeeves. New York: Perennial Library, 1988.
 
Yeah, I've been using Invisible Women and Down Girl a lot this semester, but listen, they're a really good combo. Manne's breakdown of misogynistic processes lays a fantastic foundation for further analyses, and even when Criado Perez is being gender essentialist and frankly transphobic as hell, her research on sex discrimination is a great tool. TBH Invisible Women just isn't a philosophical text; it's really not presenting compelling arguments. But it does provide productive evidence for the basic existence of misogynistic discrepancies. It's best when aimed at a recalcitrant person who keeps trying to ignore evidence, but not really adept at furthering particularly involved discussions on its own. It's baby food feminism. But it's very good at what it does. It all goes in the toolkit, right?

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