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Name:
Eke Rebergen
Titel:
Creatively resisting carceral capitalism
Description:
Recent academic research has explored the captivating logic of new AI applications and new technological developments. This contribution will assess the current captivating media that are tracing our steps, that classify and control our everyday behaviors, and enforce further predictive policing, carceral imaginaries, and widespread algorithmic management and control (Benjamin). By analyzing the intertwining of imprisonment and the infrastructures of work and technology (Kaun & Stiernstedt), we can better understand the implications of carceral capitalism and possibilities for resistance (Wang). Instead of contributing to the hype for further captivating and encapsulating technologies resulting in structural violence and the oppression of human and non-human lives, we look for ways to creatively intervene and resist. Understanding these technologies and their carceral logic is important to find ways to subvert, disrupt, and create alternatives.
For this we will revisit cases of creative resistance against prisons and the penal system, and look for ways to rework those for current times. It is not just about liberating imagination but also aimed at hands-on creatively countering the existing captive media through more poetic and expressive strategies and making. From resistance to disciplining and punishment to calls for prison abolition, we take inspiration from broad histories of refusal to be captured or controlled. What can prison writings, and earlier experiments to give voice to prison experiences, teach us for engaging with algorithmic technologies today? How can they be translated and rewritten for a broader audience, and specifically for artists and designers that work with media and technology? We will critically assess the politics of algorithmic technologies and look for ways to develop alternative infrastructures that are not made to lock us in.