Black Technoscience Symposium

This afternoon-long symposium brings together scholars to discuss how visual cultures of blackness constitute and are mediated by science, social science, and technology. Rather than read aesthetics as a reprieve from technoscience, we ask how these various domains enmesh at the site of Black flesh. The invited speakers reckon with how the aesthetic arrangement of Blackened corporeality across these domains has long been and remains a critical apparatus to cohere broader definitions of heaven/hell, nature/culture, hero/criminal, human/machine, and life/death.