Long Stack Histories: Gender, Digital Culture, AI
What is the future for technological feminism in an AI era – and what resources can the past offer in generating a response to this future? This paper argues that re-assessing histories of the technological feminism and its response to digital developments is significant (i) because these histories are being forgotten or set aside as irrelevant but remain valuable, and (ii) because this reassessment can provoke a broader consideration of the past and future role and function of critique in relation to computational cultures and AI capitalism.
Professor Caroline Bassett is Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) and former director, and one of the founding members of the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab. Her areas of interest include: Digital Media, computational humanities, AI and the transformation of knowlege cultures, technology and social power, science fiction, utopian thinking, critical theories of the digital, AI lit, AI and Writing. Feminist thinking on technology and the political. Theorizing media histories and archaeologies, automation anxiety. AI explainabilty and the politics of technology and epistemic cultures. Theories of the everyday, Perec and automatic writing.