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An Agenda for Decolonizing Data Science – spheres

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In his essay “Technologies of Power: From Area Studies to Big Data”, Manan Asif charts a fascinating continuity between early 20th century philological projects that were funded by the United States through a range of state and private entities and resulted in the field of ‘area studies’ and its echoes in the project of (big) data science studies. As Asif points out, in the aftermath of the Second World War, with the dawn of “the universal age” and the centring of the United States as the new global hegemon, the question of knowing the world arose – its peoples, areas, their ideological leanings and the way in which they could be managed. The Cold War era’s anxieties about identifying, ‘sniffing out’ and converting countries that were supposedly in the danger of, or on the brink of falling prey to communism is also striking to me to the extent that this political ideology appeared as a certain predisposition that threatened the US-led new empire and needed to be quelled at all costs.

An Agenda for Decolonizing Data Science – spheres Noopur Raval November 20, 2019 #5 Spectres of AI Comment An Agenda for Decolonizing Data Science PDF Download In his essay “Technologies of Power: From Area Studies to Big Data”, Manan Asif charts a fascinating continuity between early 20 th century philological projects that were funded by the United States through a range of state and private entities and resulted in the field of ‘area studies’ and its echoes in the project of (big) data science studies. As Asif points out, in the aftermath of the Second World War, with the dawn of “the

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