Algo(rhy)thms.

This essay examines Blackness and its colonial appropriation through the case of FN Meka, a robot rapper, along with other holographic, digitized representations of Black musical production. What does it mean to technically simulate Blackness? And what can be done to resist this simulation? We attem...

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Publicado en:Afterimage Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 84 - 111
Autores principales: Dial, A. Joseph, Baker, Margaret
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of California Press Mar2025
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