Week 11: Future Visions
**Bring an idea or two for your final project that you will workshop in a small group. Here is the final project/paper prompt.
Ruha Benjamin, Race after Technology: Abolitionist Tools for a New Jim Code (2019) (~57 pages plus notes)
7pm Last film screening! All Light, Everywhere (dir. Theo Anthony: 2021)
April 15:
**Please select one passage from these manifestos/visions you’d be interested in discussing in class. Email this to me by 9am if possible so I can print them!
The Friends of Attention, Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement (2026) (selection)
Sam Altman, “The Gentle Singularity” (blog post)
Jonathan Crary, Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World (2022) (selection)
Robin D. G. Kelley, “Introduction,” in Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2003)
Ruha Benjamin, Imagination: A Manifesto (2024) (selection)
Optional (can browse):
Marc Andreessen, “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto” (2023)
**Bring an idea or two for your final project that you will workshop in a small group. Here is the final project/paper prompt.
Ruha Benjamin, Race after Technology: Abolitionist Tools for a New Jim Code (2019) (~57 pages plus notes)
7pm Last film screening! All Light, Everywhere (dir. Theo Anthony: 2021)
April 15:
**Please select one passage from these manifestos/visions you’d be interested in discussing in class. Email this to me by 9am if possible so I can print them!
The Friends of Attention, Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement (2026) (selection)
Sam Altman, “The Gentle Singularity” (blog post)
Jonathan Crary, Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World (2022) (selection)
Robin D. G. Kelley, “Introduction,” in Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2003)
Ruha Benjamin, Imagination: A Manifesto (2024) (selection)
Optional (can browse):
Marc Andreessen, “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto” (2023)