Michael and Stacy Koehn Public Lecture in Critical Theory
Department: Critical Theory at UCI
Date and Time: January 27, 2020 | 4:00 PM-5:30 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway 1030
Event Details
Professor Wendy Hui Kyong Chun:
“Authenticating Figures: Algorithms and the New Politics of Recognition”
What does recognition mean in an era of pervasive data capture and automatic pattern detection? Tracing the historical move from “pattern discrimination” to “pattern recognition,” this talk unpacks the logic and politics of recognition at the core of systems designed to automatically identify and classify users. It argues for the centrality of the humanities in understanding how we have become characters in a drama called “Big Data.”
Professor Chun is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication. She is the author of Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (MIT 2016), Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT 2011), and Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (2006).