Tired of the Future, Time for the Now (with Josh Scannell)
/Assistant Professor of Digital Media Theory at New School’s School of Media Studies and author of This is Not a Minority Report: Predictive policing and population racism, Joshua Scannell joins the WBI show.
How do calls for police transparency miss the ways predictive policing claims to have ownership of the future through surveilling the present? How does speculative fiction embody and intervene in our anxieties of American racial capitalism? Drawing on his essay in Ruha Benjamin’s collection, Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life, Josh invokes the words of Black studies scholars including Christina Sharpe in challenging us to see the world otherwise.
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Links for Episode:
The Commish (William Bratton's memoir)
The Contradictions of Chicago Police's Secretive List
Measuring What Matters 1992
Policing Is an Information Business
ShotSpotter: Home
Recommendations:
Josh Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution by Julius Scott
Ilan The Secret Life of Urban Crows
Stanley Brother to Brother: Writings by Black Gay Men, Tongues Untied(Movie)
Khadijah Money Heist (TV Show)
