SASSI School
SASSI hosts study groups designed to explore and interrogate a variety of topics and issues broadly related to the use of technologies for policing purposes. The following briefly introduces the different sessions of SASSI School that we have hosted. If you would like to join a SASSI School, please contact us.
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This session of SASSI School explored the evolution of the prison-industrial complex with the rise of the data economy.
Selected texts:
From Military Industrial Complex to the Prison-Industrial Complex by Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control by Meredith Whittaker
Understanding E-Carceration by James Kilgore
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This session of SASSI School is a deep reading of André Gorz’s idea of non-reformist reforms and it’s relevance to challenging the growing use of surveillance tools and systems.
Selected Readings
Reform and Revolution by André Gorz
Non-Reformist Reforms and Struggles over Life, Death, and Democracy by Amna A. Akbar.
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