assistant professor of radio, television & film at rowan university | feminist & postcolonial african media histories | nyu miap | she/her
Jennifer Blaylock
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AI boom discourse has gotten so out of hand that it’s making the New Yorker relatable🫢
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Three things said about AI and social science: it's a topic to study, a thing to critique, a tool to use. My new Daedalus essay argues these aren't three conversations; they're one. A 🧵 on "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object, and Tool."
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Serendipitously, the water damage on the advertisement has darkened the lightened skins rendering the allure of whiteness in the original ad mute.
"In the center foreground stood a couple of Africans with successfully bleached skins looking a forced yellow-brown. Around them several darker Africans stood in various poses, all open-mouthed with admiration of the bleached pair.” (Ayi Kwei Armah, Fragments [Per Ankh edition], 129)
“Baako went to the left side wall and took down the huge calendar from off its hook. The calendar itself was a small thing suspended from a very large color picture advertising something called AMBI-EXTRA skin-lightening cream."
