BORDERLINES ANNOUNCES THE LAUNCH OF A NEW COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WITH THE TECHNOLOGIES OF POWER PROJECT AND THE JOINT PUBLICATION OF A NUMBER OF SHORT VIDEO LECTURES FROM THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE. THIS LECTURE SERIES TITLED ‘ENCLOSURES’ FEATURES THREE TALKS BY HELGA TAWIL-SOURI, DARREN BYLER, CHARLTON MCIIWAIN.

This week’s Technologies of Power: Tracing Empire at Home and Abroad lecture series features a discussion around the theme of Enclosures concerning Surveillance and Control. Learn and explore how technologies of power and empire have shaped multiple terrains domestically and transnationally.

From imperial projects that devastated entire regions in South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa to the domestic expansion of explicit white supremacy, surveillance, and policing, US technologies of power have generated a multidirectional and dialectical relationship between foreign wars and domestic issues.

Funded by the Humanities War & Peace Initiative Grant at Columbia University, Technologies of Power will encourage intersectional conversations on race, empire, technologies, and policing that break the boundaries between ‘foreign’ and ‘domestic,’ ‘abroad’ and ‘home,’ ‘technology’ and ‘power.’

7 conversations. 21 scholars, writers, and activists.

Helga Tawil-Souri, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication along with the Middle East and Islamic Studies, discusses the concern of access within virtual infrastructures due to profit-incentivized spaces. Professor Tawii-Souri discusses the intersection between capital accumulation and regimes of survelliance within the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

Darren Byler is an incoming Assistant Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, and a post-doctoral research fellow in the China Made Project at the Center for Asian Studies, CU Boulder. He is the author of a forthcoming ethnography titled Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City (Duke University Press 2021) and a narrative-driven book titled In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia Global Reports 2021). His current research interests are focused on infrastructure development and global China in the context of Xinjiang and Malaysia.

Charlton McIlwain is the author of the new book, Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, From the Afronet to Black Lives Matter. He is Vice Provost for Faculty Development & Engagement at New York University, and Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU Steinhardt. His work focuses on the intersections of computing technology, race, inequality, and racial justice activism. He has served as an expert witness in landmark U.S. Federal Court cases on reverse redlining/racial targeting in mortgage lending, and recently testified before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services about the impacts of automation and artificial intelligence on the financial services sector. He writes regularly for outlets such as The Guardian, Slate's Future Tense, MIT Technology Review, and other outlets about the intersection of race and technology.

Full transcript of the webinar with the Q&A portion of the talk

Follow the @techofpower project on twitter and stay tuned for the next talk on 01/27/22.

Prepared with the editorial assistance of Nishat Akhtar.

#TechofPower: Enclosures