nothing is objective
Objectivity is a colonial demand that erases researchers from their own… | Sabrina Meherally | 10 comments
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good numbers don't mean good impact. We can hit every target and still harm the system we operate in.
zoe scaman • The Work
rather than declare a technology or institution either good or bad by its nature, we recognize instead the possibility that a technology or institution might serve useful ends until it crosses certain thresholds of scale, volume, or intensity, after which it stops serving the ends for which it was created and become, first, counterproductive and th
... See moreThe Convivial Society • Life Cannot Be Delegated
the degree to which attention discourse is invested in a clear “subject” looking at an “object”: a binary relation that many of those other methods have challenged.
Dirt • Dirt: Disordered Attention
despite the undeniably consistent picture that we see across studies of scientific data collection, the desire to remove the human from the data in order to enhance objectivity remains very strong. Invariably, it seems like the ethical move.
Melanie Feinberg • The Myth of Objective Data
The issue with even this “trend” is that so much of cultural critique today remains observational.
Problematic considering the tiny narrative bubbles we’re each in.
Without layering any quantitative analysis into our stories, fads remain just reactions to reactions. Emptiness.
This two-cultures thinking, moreover, distorts the empirical realities of data collection, the challenging work of forcing unruly phenomena to speak in clean, distinct, ideally quantitative phrases
Melanie Feinberg • The Myth of Objective Data
Off Kilter 178: Data Is An Agenda.
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