Co-Instructors: American Artist and Simone Browne
This class grappled with the surveillance of Black life – the archive of slavery, predictive policing, biometric technologies, direct-to-consumer DNA testing kits – in order to understand and also create acts of refusal. Taking hope as a method of refusal, the class questioned various ways of challenging and resisting surveillance.
Guiding Recources
- Typhoon Coming On. By Sondra Perry.
- Zong! By M. NourbeSe Philip
- The Feeling of Being Watched [documentary]. By Assia Bendaoui
- Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies. By Sean Cubitt
- Police: A Field Guide. By David Correia and Tyler Wall
- Carceral Capitalism. Jackie Wang