Synecdoche and Binary Race
Nakamura’s arguments seem to be large, bulky. They allude to grand claims; representations of race in The Matrix and Minority Report are interesting and her analysis seems accurate. I am left wondering, however, what or how these claims might relate to other texts and digitality in general.
She does discuss some [...]
February 20, 2008
Categories: Rhetoric, Writing & Digital Technology . Tags: binarism, digitizing race, Lisa Nakamura, Matrix, Minority Report, race, synecdoche . Author: jaypjohnson . Comments: 1 Comment
Some early and ongoing thoughts on Digitizing Race as I navigate this text…I’m interested by the notion that color blindness is a symptom of racism (3). Perhaps this has to do with my sociohistoric coming of age during the neoliberalism of the 1990’s. It seems that Nakamura readily accepts this notion (thus far, anyway) and [...]
February 13, 2008
Categories: Rhetoric, Writing & Digital Technology . Tags: binarism, Nakamura, neoliberalism, race . Author: jaypjohnson . Comments: 1 Comment