Notes on a State of Extrusion: The Racialised Grammar of Cognitive Augmentation Devices

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Notes

1 Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia.

2 Ibid., 149.

3 Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 185.

4 Ibid., 17.

5 Wiener, “Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation,” 1357.

6 Ibid.

7 Chude-Sokei, “Machines and the Ethics of Miscegenation.”

8 Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 150.

9 Ibid.

10 Ibid., 151.

11 Wiener, “Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation,” 1357.

12 Ibid.

13 Chude-Sokei, “Machines and the Ethics of Miscegenation.”

14 Franklin, The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value, 112.

15 Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 15.

16 Ibid., 16.

17 Ibid., 16-17.

18 Ibid., 17.

19 Franklin, The Digitally Disposed, 97.

20 Ibid., 113.

21 Ibid., 136.

22 Ibid.. 110.

23 Nhemachena, Hlabangane, and Kaundjua, “Relationality or Hospitality in Twenty-First Century Research?,” 113.

24 Ibid.

25 Ibid.

26 Chude-Sokei, The Sound of Culture, 89.

27 Ibid.

28 Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 147.

29 Ibid.

30 Kazanjia, “Racial Governmentality,” 42.

31 Ibid.

32 Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes Or None, 7.

33 Ibid.

34 Ibid., 5.

35 Ibid.

36 Wright, Becoming Black, 66.

37 Chude-Sokei, The Sound of Culture, 36.

38 Ibid.

39 Chude-Sokei, “Machines and the Ethics of Miscegenation.”

40 Colebrook, “Slavery and the Trumpocene,” 45.

41 Ibid.

42 Ibid., 49.

43 Couldry and  Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 87.

44 Mbembe, Necropolitics, 170.

Ibid.

45 Ibid.

46 Ibid., 20.

47 Ibid., 18.

48 Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 172.

49 Couldry and Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 85.

50 Stiegler, For a New Critique of Political Economy, 9.

51 Ibid., 9-10.

52 Ibid., 33.

53 Schultz, “Mapping Indigenous Futures: Decolonising Techno-Colonising Designs,” 81.

54 Ibid., 82.

55 Ibid.

56 MIT Media Lab, “AlterEgo.”

57 Ibid.

58 Ibid.

59 Ibid.

60 Stern Strategy Group, “Biography Arnav Kapur.”

61 Ibid.

62 European Commission, “AlterEgo.”

63 Ibid.

64 iCub, “iCub robot.”

65 Ibid.

66 Ibid.

67 Ibid.

68 European Commission, “AlterEgo.”

69 Wright, Becoming Black, 62.

70 Ibid., 62.

71 Jackson, Becoming Human, 4.

72 Ibid., 6.

73 Wright, Becoming Black, 62.

74 Ibid.

75 Ibid., 63.

76 Jackson, Becoming Human, 163.

77 Wynter, “Towards the Sociogenic Principle,” 53.

78 Rollo, “The Color of Childhood,” 309.

79 Ibid.

80 Nishime, “The Mulatto Cyborg,” 43.

81 Ibid.

82 Raiford, “Race, Robots and the Law,” 108.

83 Ibid.

84 Ante-Contreras, “Autism as Metaphor,” 3.

85 Ibid.

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Stephanie Polsky

Stephanie Polsky is an interdisciplinary writer and academic working in the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University. Her most recent book The Dark Posthuman: Dehumanization, Technology, and the Atlantic World (New York: Punctum Books, 2022) explores how liberal humanism first enlivened, racialised, and gendered global cartographies, and how memory, ancestry, expression, and other aspects of social identity founded in its theories and practices made for the advent of the category of the posthuman through the dimensions of cultural, geographic, political, social, and scientific classification. Email: [email protected]