Pattern Discrimination by Clemens Apprich

' Other analysts, however, pointed out that it is not simply a question of inclusion or exclusion but also of how differences are “latently” encoded. The problem, in other words, was the still-lingering digital divide. Machine Learning: Money Laundering for Bias? ' To many, the solution was thus better, cleaner data: crime data, scrubbed free of police bias more images of black folks in libraries more diversity within the tech industry, so technologies not tested on minorities would not reach the consumer market (Harris 2016). Most crucially, what everyone needs now: training in critical ethnic studies. ' ' We also need to reembrace critical theory: feminism, ethnic studies, deconstruction, and yes, even psychoanalysis, data analytics’ repressed parent. It also depends on constantly repeated actions to create and sustain nodes and connections. it is also performative-it puts in place the world it discovers.

' ' Most broadly, this pattern discrimination is linked to a larger subsumption of democratic politics to neoliberal market economics, with its naïve overvaluing of openness (as discussed by Cramer in the preceding chapter) and authenticity (diagnosed brilliantly by Elizabeth Bernstein ). it is a tool for discovering bias and inequality and for perpetuating it in the name of “comfort,” predictability, and common sense. Homophily launders hate into collective love, a transformation that, as Sara Ahmed has shown, grounds modern white supremacism (2004, 123). The fact that networks perpetuate segregation should surprise no one because, again, segregation in the form of homophily lies at their conceptual core. ' Homophily (love as love of the same) fuels pattern discrimination. ' ' This new method-this pattern discrimination-makes older, deterministic, or classically analytic methods of control seem innocuous. Networks are neither unstructured masses nor endless rhizomes that cannot be cut or traced. In network science, differences and similarities-differences as a way to shape similarities-are actively sought, shaped, and instrumentalized in order to apprehend network structures. ' Instead of ushering in a postracial, postidentitarian era, networks perpetuate identity via “default” variables and axioms. ' If we are inside-out, it is because homophily, love as love of the same, closes the world it pretends to open it makes cyberspace a series of echo chambers. (Hg.): Pattern Discrimination (Lüneburg: meson press 2018). Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong, 'Queering Homophily,' Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Florian Cramer u.a.

Pattern Discrimination by Clemens Apprich