Week 1

Lesson 1 Course Introduction

• Course Syllabus.
  • Please read through the syllabus

Lesson 2 Do Artifacts Have Politics?

• Winner, L. (1980). Do Artifacts Have Politics?, Daedalus.
  • Please comment no more than one word or an "mmm" on a quote you resonate with. Feel free to watch this video as a primer to the article

Lesson 3 Solutionism

• Morozov, E. (2014). Against Solutionism, DLD Conference.

Lesson 4 Who Are "We"?

• Douglass, F. (1852, July 5). “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”.
  • Feel free to watch this video alongside the article

Lesson 5 Racial Capitalism

• Hannah-Jones, N. (2023). Capitalism (Episode 4), The 1619 Project (Hulu Series).
  • We recognize not everyone may have access to Hulu and as such have uploaded a version to Canvas

Week 2

Lesson 6 Race After Technology

• Benjamin, R. (2019). Race After Technology, Polity.
  • We'll be reading the Introduction chapter, but you're welcome to check out the rest of the book on your own time (it's available via NU Libraries!)

Lesson 7 Algorithmic Ecology

• Stop LAPD Spying Coalition & Free Radicals (2020). The Algorithmic Ecology: An Abolitionist Tool for Organizing Against Algorithms.
• (2026). Native Communities Fight AI Data Centers on Indigenous Land, Democracy Now.
  • Feel free to also check out Honor the Earth's Data Center Fact Sheet

Lesson 8 Design Narratives

• Costanza-Chock, S. (2020). Design Justice, MIT Press.
  • We'll be reading the chapter on Design Narratives, but you're welcome to check out the rest of the book on your own time (it's open access!)

Lesson 9 AI Futures

• Gwadabe, A. (2022). African Ancestral AI, Data & Society Research Institute.
  • More stories are available in the series Parables of AI in/from the Majority World.
• Young, L. (2016). In The Robot Skies, Fear and Wonder.
• Harrington, C., Roberts, J., Bray, K., & Diakhate, N. (2021). Building Utopia Guidebook, Building Utopia.

Week 3

Lesson 10 Unintended Consequences

• Parvin, N. & Pollock, A. (2020). Unintended by Design: On the Political Uses of “Unintended Consequences”, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 6.
  • Feel free to watch Dr. Nassim Parvin's presentation as a primer to the article

Lesson 11 Data Capitalism

• Milner, Y., & Traub, A. (2020). Data Capitalism, Data for Black Lives.
  • No need to download the full report. Just check out the info on the website.
• Takahashi, A., Wang, S., & Li, C. (2020). Oh, the Places Your Data Will Go!, Free Radicals.
• Tactical Tech (2021). Data Detox x Youth.
  • There are versions available in other languages too.

Lesson 12 Outsider

• Wang, X. (2020). Blockchain Chicken Farm, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • Feel free to check out Xiaowei Wang's Ted Talk too!

Lesson 13 Insider

• Jones, S. T., melo, n. a., & Shaw, M. S. (2021). We Tell These Stories to Survive: Towards Abolition in Computer Science Education [Zine edition].
  • Feel free to check out the full article here, available at NU Libraries. More resources from the zine/article available on this Linktree

Lesson 14 So, What Now?

• Cath, C. & Keyes, O. (2022). Your Thoughts for a Penny? Capital, Complicity, and AI Ethics, Institute of Network Cultures (Theory on Demand Series), 46.