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| === Afternoon === | === Afternoon === |
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| * Technological Persona. Input by Felix Stalder | * {{ ::fs_personas_presentation.pdf |Technological Persona}}. Input by Felix Stalder |
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| * ** Group Work:** Reading, Presenting, Discussion | * ** Group Work:** Reading, Presenting, Discussion |
| === Afternoon === | === Afternoon === |
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| Input Nora Al-Badri: **Post-Colonial Perspectives & who is speaking** | Input Nora Al-Badri: **{{ ::al_badri_eth_zhdk_postcolonial.pdf |APost-Colonial Perspectives & who is speaking}}** |
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| **Further reading:** | **Further reading:** |
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| Short Texts, associative read and present one sentence | Short Texts, associative read and present one sentence |
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| https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12kZiSpMozZaky9dVodt22OnW4pxuGtgm | |
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| * Gayatry Spivak: Can the Subaltern Speak?, 1989 | * Gayatry Spivak: Can the Subaltern Speak?, 1989 |
| Guests: | Guests: |
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| **Dr. [[https://ets.ethz.ch/people/person-detail.MzM5NzY0.TGlzdC80NTY5LDIwMTgyMzYxMDk=.html|Kebene Wodajo]], **Lecturer at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETHZ "**Subjectivity, Personhood, and AI Systems: Afro-Communitarian Gaze** The modernist gaze narrates the story of data and data-driven technologies, such as AI systems, through an individualistic, state-centric, and market-oriented lens. Within this narrative, a person is conceptualised as an individual data subject who exercises control and retains rights over their data, while relying on state-centric frameworks for protection—or so the prevailing rhetoric suggests. But what if we were to shift our perspective, to cast our gaze towards the 'otherwise', towards the non-mainstream, towards pluralistic ways of seeing, being, and becoming? What if we viewed data and data-driven technologies in their full complexity—not merely as products/commodities, but rather as intricate sociotechnical, material, discursive, and more-than-human? This lecture invites students to embark together on this journey towards the 'otherwise', guided by Afro-communitarian perspectives. This viewpoint begins with 'we' rather than 'I', emphasises multiplicity over singularity, and foregrounds multiple ontologies and diverse forms of becoming. Adopting this gaze neither erases individuality nor diminishes the pursuit of equality, fairness, and transparency in AI systems. Rather, these concepts are illuminated in views from the 'otherwise'. They are understood not merely as claims grounded in legally prescribed rights but as necessities arising from the inherent multiplicity within individuality itself—captured vividly in various Afro-communitarian principles, from the well-known 'I am because we are' to ‘//Namummaa’//. This gaze remains deeply attentive to personhood as entangled within plurality and relationality; and subjectivity, as a form of irreducibly emergent becoming. | **Dr. [[https://ets.ethz.ch/people/person-detail.MzM5NzY0.TGlzdC80NTY5LDIwMTgyMzYxMDk=.html|Kebene Wodajo]] **Lecturer at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETHZ |
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| | "**Subjectivity, Personhood, and AI Systems: Afro-Communitarian Gaze** |
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| | The modernist gaze narrates the story of data and data-driven technologies, such as AI systems, through an individualistic, state-centric, and market-oriented lens. Within this narrative, a person is conceptualised as an individual data subject who exercises control and retains rights over their data, while relying on state-centric frameworks for protection—or so the prevailing rhetoric suggests. But what if we were to shift our perspective, to cast our gaze towards the 'otherwise', towards the non-mainstream, towards pluralistic ways of seeing, being, and becoming? What if we viewed data and data-driven technologies in their full complexity—not merely as products/commodities, but rather as intricate sociotechnical, material, discursive, and more-than-human? This lecture invites students to embark together on this journey towards the 'otherwise', guided by Afro-communitarian perspectives. This viewpoint begins with 'we' rather than 'I', emphasises multiplicity over singularity, and foregrounds multiple ontologies and diverse forms of becoming. Adopting this gaze neither erases individuality nor diminishes the pursuit of equality, fairness, and transparency in AI systems. Rather, these concepts are illuminated in views from the 'otherwise'. They are understood not merely as claims grounded in legally prescribed rights but as necessities arising from the inherent multiplicity within individuality itself—captured vividly in various Afro-communitarian principles, from the well-known 'I am because we are' to ‘//Namummaa’//. This gaze remains deeply attentive to personhood as entangled within plurality and relationality; and subjectivity, as a form of irreducibly emergent becoming. |
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| **Further Readings**: | **Further Readings**: |
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| * Mhlambi, S. (2020). [[https://perma.cc/Q5ZL-TTD8|From rationality to relationality: Ubuntu as an ethical and human rights framework for artificial intelligence governance]]. In //Car center for human rights policy//, discussion paper series 220–009. | * Mhlambi, S. (2020). [[https://perma.cc/Q5ZL-TTD8|From rationality to relationality: Ubuntu as an ethical and human rights framework for artificial intelligence governance]]. In //Car center for human rights policy//, discussion paper series 220–009. {{ ::ccdp_2020-009_sabelo-1.pdf |local copy}} |
| * Law, John (2015). [[https://doi.org/10.1080/1600910x.2015.1020066|What's wrong with a one-world world? ]]//Distinktion//: //Journal of Social Theory//, 16(1) pp. 126–139 | * Law, John (2015). [[https://doi.org/10.1080/1600910x.2015.1020066|What's wrong with a one-world world? ]]//Distinktion//: //Journal of Social Theory//, 16(1) pp. 126–139 |
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| * Adorno, Theodor W. //The Authoritarian Personality//. La Vergne: Verso, 2019. | * Adorno, Theodor W. //The Authoritarian Personality//. La Vergne: Verso, 2019. |
| * Jung, C. G., and R. F. C. Hull. //Two Essays on Analytical Psychology//. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 1966. | * Jung, C. G., and R. F. C. Hull. //Two Essays on Analytical Psychology//. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 1966. |
| * Cooper, Alan. //The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity//. 15th ed. Indianapolis, Indiana: SAMS, 2015. \\ Young, Indi. //Mental Models//. Sebastopol: Rosenfeld Media, 2011. | * Cooper, Alan. //The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity//. 15th ed. Indianapolis, Indiana: SAMS, 2015. |
| | * Young, Indi. //Mental Models//. Sebastopol: Rosenfeld Media, 2011. |
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| ===== Friday: Group Work and Presentations ===== | ===== Friday: Group Work and Presentations ===== |
| **Group Work** | **Group Work** |
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| * Session Four: finishing up & preparing the presentation | * Session Four: finishing up & preparing the presentation (09:00 - 10:45) |
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| **Presention**: each 10 Minute Presentation, 10 Minute Diskussion | **Presention**: each 10 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion (11:00-13:00) |
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