All seminars are aimed primarily at graduate students undertaking or considering the Critical Theory Emphasis, but all are welcome.
Fall 2024 CTE Mini Seminar
Professor Colin Koopman
from University of Oregon
for our Fall Mini-Seminar, titled:
"Data Equality and Technological Hierarchy:
Democracy in the AI Society"
Monday, October 28th -
Session One: HG 1010 4-6pm
Tuesday, October 29th -
Session Two: HH 342 2-4pm
Session Three: HH 342 5-7pm
This is an in-person event.
Please RSVP if you intend on attending CTE's Mini-Seminar.
Please note that that UCI students attending this Mini-Seminar for credit must attend all three seminar sessions to obtain credit.
Sign-in will be required each day.
Colin Koopman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, where he is also Director of the New Media & Culture graduate certificate program, and previously Head of the Department of Philosophy. His recent work focuses on politics and power in data technology. His current book project, Data Equals: Democratic Equality and Technological Hierarchy, is forthcoming in 2025 with University of Chicago Press. The project engages contemporary theorists (including Catherine Malabou and Elizabeth Anderson) and historical visionaries (especially W.E.B. Du Bois and John Dewey) to develop a technologically aware egalitarian alternative to the data-driven hierarchies explored in Koopman's previous book, How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person (University of Chicago Press, 2019). His earlier work articulated methods for empirically engaged political theory in Genealogy as Critique (Indiana UP, 2013) and Pragmatism as Transition (Columbia UP, 2009). Koopman's public writings have appeared in The New York Times where he was also interviewed by David Marchese about his theories of data selfhood. His scholarly writings have appeared in journals ranging from Critical Inquiry and Theory, Culture, & Society to Political Theory and Constellations