SCHOLAR AND EDUCATOR DR. RAMON AMARO: “ON MACHINE LEARNING AND THE COLLECTIVE CONDITION OF BLACK SURVIVAL”

Hosted in conjunction with the public lectures organized by the Yale School of Art in tandem with its 150th anniversary and its status as a co-educational professional school of art, scholar and educator Dr. Ramon Amaro will deliver a public lecture on the afternoon of November 20th on his recent research regarding machine learning as it relates to systems of value and racialized exclusion. In On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects, Gilbert Simondon argues that alienation in our contemporary techno-culture is caused by an imbalance in our perception and recognition of certain object as having more value than others, which is pronounced by a desire for power in a partial and biased culture. Simondon argues that this condition, or what he describes as an “inadequate rapport” between humans and technology, can be surpassed by building an authentic “awareness” of the existence of technical objects. This dynamic, according to…