BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6470-d3c618679f695435f91f0c77cae65867@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20261017T060621Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190328T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190328T170000 SUMMARY:\"Technopsyence and Afro-Surrealism’s Cripistemologies\" presented by Ol ivia Banner, University of Texas at Dallas DESCRIPTION:New psychiatric research leashes mobile device data to neuro scientific and genetic research for the purpose of resolving weaknesses in psychiatric nosologies. Digital psychiatric treatment tools\, impleme nted under neoliberal austerity frameworks\, generate new data associate d with mental health. I name this interlinked assemblage &ldquo\;technop syence&rdquo\; to indicate that the psy-ences\, like other domains of 21 st century biomedicine\, operate in tandem with the technology industrie s that they fuel. With the risk industries incorporating this new data i nto their calculations\, technopsyence serves as another big data indust ry by which populations are capacitated and debilitated. In this\, I arg ue\, technopsyence reproduces extractive racial capitalism. \n\n \;\ n\nUsing a crip theoretical approach\, I explore a recent Afro-Surrealis t text about Black cyborgs and Black mental distress to consider its rei maginings of the relationship among digital technologies\, bodyminds\, a nd extractive racial capitalism. An aesthetic that challenges Enlightenm ent epistemologies\, Afro-Surrealism questions the models for knowledge about bodyminds that undergird technopsyence. The text I examine offers a historical materialist cripistemology of digital media. It presses us to imagine care in the digital era outside of racial capitalism.\n\n&nbs p\;\n\nSpeaker bio:\n\n \;\n\nOlivia Banner is Assistant Professor o f Critical Media Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her recen t book Communicative Biocapitalism: The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health Humanities (University of Michigan Press\, 2017) e xamines how gender\, race\, and disability inform the value that biocapi talism locates in &ldquo\;the voice of the patient.&rdquo\; Her second b ook project\, Screening &ldquo\;Madness\,&rdquo\; 1949-2020\, constructs a genealogy of screen media&rsquo\;s incorporation into the psychiatric disciplines to reveal those media&rsquo\;s centrality to the discipline s&rsquo\; racialization and gendering of pathologization.\n\nFor more de tails: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/technopsyence_and_afro-surrealism s_cripistemologies_presented_by_olivia_banner_university_of_texas_at_dal las/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

New psychiatric research leashes mobile device data to neuroscient ific and genetic research for the purpose of resolving weaknesses in psy chiatric nosologies. Digital psychiatric treatment tools, implemented un der neoliberal austerity frameworks, generate new data associated with m ental health. I name this interlinked assemblage “technopsyence&rd quo; to indicate that the psy-ences, like other domains of 21st century biomedicine, operate in tandem with the technology industries that they fuel. With the risk industries incorporating this new data into their ca lculations, technopsyence serves as another big data industry by which p opulations are capacitated and debilitated. In this, I argue, technopsye nce reproduces extractive racial capitalism.

 

Using a crip theoretical approach, I explore a recent Afro-Surrealist text about Black cyborgs and Black ment al distress to consider its reimaginings of the relationship among digit al technologies, bodyminds, and extractive racial capitalism. An aesthet ic that challenges Enlightenment epistemologies, Afro-Surrealism questio ns the models for knowledge about bodyminds that undergird technopsyence . The text I examine offers a historical materialist cripistemology of d igital media. It presses us to imagine care in the digital era outside o f racial capitalism.

 

Speaker bio:

 

Olivia Banner is Assistant Professor of Critical Media Studi es at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her recent book Communicative B iocapitalism: The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health Humanities (University of Michigan Press, 2017) examines how gender, rac e, and disability inform the value that biocapitalism locates in “ the voice of the patient.” Her second book project, Screening &ldq uo;Madness,” 1949-2020, constructs a genealogy of screen media&rsq uo;s incorporation into the psychiatric disciplines to reveal those medi a’s centrality to the disciplines’ racialization and genderi ng of pathologization.

For more details: https://events.la .psu.edu/event/technopsyence_and_afro-surrealisms_cripistemologies_prese nted_by_olivia_banner_university_of_texas_at_dallas/

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