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In the first month of 2020 almost everyday for 3 weeks students and teachers gathered at the School for Poetic Competition located in Westbeth Artists Housing.☄








This is my reflection of my time at Code Societies.☄︎











The fuzzy edges of character
encoding -or- On the internet,
nobody knows you are a binary
numerical argument and not the
letter “A” Jan 10th 2020 by Everest
Pipkin.
In this class we thought about
communication in systems. I think
about the first message transmitted
using Morse code: "WHAT HATH GOD
WROUGHT" Morse communicated to his
assistant 150 years ago. It is a
statement that means "What has God
done." It is not asking for an
answer, it had no punctuation
Message tape with<br>transcription WHAT HATH GOD<br>WROUGHT.



Reimagining race tech and justice by Ruha Benjamin
I recently stared meditating and observing my breath,
my body, my thoughts, my pain, and to not perceive
any of them as good or bad, but to just perceive. I
think that this is helping me stretch that moment out
where I get to choose if Im going to continue a pattern
or break it. To be more mindful of the past and the
future, is to break the productivity of the racism
that is so embedded in our society.
ruha leading a class at SFPC.


Surveillance Studies by American Artist Simone Browne
The present colonistic practices of
Unicode or the facebook / google
wire (underwater internet cable
called Equiano) are the same kind
of "installed with malintent" David
Lyon spoke about in Simone Browne's
text "Surveillance Studies".
equiano.
Contract to acutal Equiano (famous
abolotionist & author), born in
slavery: slave narratives
of the Federal writers project
slaves were interviewed by white
people (Browne: think about what
might not be said or translated
correctly)


between you and me by harlo holmes
between you and me I now use my own VPN called
computer saith on my coputer and phone!



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people being caracatures of family members,  they become more abject
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Taeyoon's class we built computers
LED sculptures controlled by switch
Yes, these are computers!
Its innerworkings proudly presented
it conveys information
and it is handheld
I added a face to my computer
my computer smiles back at me

“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
― Toni Morrison

Something that has come up again and again
in code societies is how the desire to
control and define and to analyze is
inherently part of the white inferiority
complex (nod to other Char who coined that
phrase). In "decolonization is not a
metaphor" by Tuck and Yang and they speak
about the varieties of injustices in
education: racism, sexism, heterosexism,
classism, ableism, capitalism, imperialism,
militarism, colonization and how they cannot
be lumped together because that reduces them.
Just like Kameelah said she hated metaphors.
I am grateful that Code Societies focuses on
racism against black people in America
because lots of white folk (✋🏼) must learn to
sit with the uncomfortableness. The future we
are striving for can live beyond but not
forget that that white ancestors hurt people
so deeply, and us, our joys and sorrows, our
whole world are a result of it.






overall code societies was amazing.
Big thanks. I am full of gratitude!

This was my final project. It's called de-abstractions and
translations
It was software that would interpret text data as
sound and visuals byte for byte, removing any meaning from the sound and
visuals. Any perceived meaning is evidence you are profound




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code societies 2020