Here are some link sources:
https://www.radicalai.org/e14-miriam-sweeney
https://www.radicalai.org/episode-8-ruha-benjamin
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-algorithms-create-a-digital-underclass-1.5269959
Course description:
In MDSB01 Human, Animal, Machine (HAM), we will be focusing on the histories and ongoing constructions
of how these categories of being have been invented, how they are culturally specific, how they have
changed, and, mostly, studying the intersections, overlaps, hybrids, “mutants,” and magical creatures
that exist in the “in-between.” In particular, we will study Indigenous research methods in order to
defamiliarize ourselves with the centring of the Human to the detriment of all other living things. We will
engage with Media Studies, Critical Race Theory, Critical Data Studies, Feminist Theory, Science Studies,
and Critical Disability Studies and Sports Studies to help us understand how a hierarchy of beings has
been produced and reproduced and what implications that has for us today. In addition to studying the
HAM intersections, we will also be studying Humans, Animals and Machines in relation to the Environment,
and to media and artistic representation of these intersections both Real and Speculative. What does the
future hold?
This is why we will call ourselves The HAM’ERS (Human, Animal, Machine, and the Environment: Real and
Speculative).