{"id":6152,"date":"2017-05-11T14:11:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T21:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centrea.org\/?p=6152"},"modified":"2024-03-08T23:22:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T06:22:17","slug":"anti-racist-mathematics-and-other-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/2017\/05\/anti-racist-mathematics-and-other-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Racist Mathematics and Other Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    Anti-Racist Mathematics and Other Stories
    \nByron Peters
    \nApril 29, 2017, 3 pm
    \nCentre A<\/p>\n

    At the Annual Conservative Party Conference in 1987, Margaret Thatcher declared: \u201cChildren who need to count and multiply are being taught anti-racist mathematics, whatever that may be.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Anti-Racist Mathematics and Other Stories is a presentation of tales from the history of mathematics, global power and communication technologies. From the notion of a \u2018science of revolt\u2019 declared by Brad Werner and contextualized by Donna Haraway, the history of the algorithm from al-Khw?rizm?, Karl Marx\u2019s mathematical manuscripts, to IBM\u2019s present-day algorithm that is cited to distinguish refugees from terrorists, this talk will speculate on the make-up of technical languages and what they could become.<\/p>\n

    We would like to acknowledge that this talk takes place on the unceded territories of the Squamish, the Tsleil Waututh, and Musqueam Peoples.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Byron Peters is an artist and writer of Chinese-Canadian and European descent. His practice critically engages labour and materiality in the context of emerging technologies; economic imaginaries; prison education; and the effects of gentrification and displacement. A participant in Centre A\u2019s Centre B Studio Residency in 2016, his recent research investigates the shifting geographies in Vancouver in relation to social histories of exodus and succession, and speculative notions of \u2018the crowd.\u2019 Peters\u2019 works take the forms of sound, video, sculpture, and writing, and have been presented at Oi, Hong Kong; ICA Miami; The Southbank Centre, London; The White Building, London; The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; and The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York.<\/p>\n

    Image: Math homework at Beaver Ridge Elementary School, Georgia, USA. Credit: WSB-TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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