Decolonising AI and Memes with Freire and Bergson

TY - GEN

T1 - Decolonising AI and Memes with Freire and Bergson

AU - Guldberg, Christoffer

PY - 2024/10/31

Y1 - 2024/10/31

N2 - In this paper, I outline a method to decolonise the classroom by allowing students to exercise their critical thinking skills, thus exploring ways of seeing and doing that resist colonial ways of seeing and being – i.e. the colonial gaze. This method was inspired by my research on visual performances of sovereignty and disruptive acts of citizenship in Brazil. In line with the tension between performances of colonial subjects and the acts that disrupt such discourses, it allows for students to critically question and disrupt visual representations of racialised and gendered subjects and concepts like sovereignty, citizenship, international development, beauty, crime, or migrant, refugee and ex-pat that are closely related to coloniality and inequality. The method itself is simple and starts with students doing a Google Image search for a political, legal, cultural, or social concept, such as the above, or as we will see below, nation-states in the Global North and South (Guldberg 2022). This allows students to explore and question how these concepts have problematic and unequal relations to population and territory as the main components of a Western-centric understanding of sovereignty (Ayoob 2002) and international development (Mignolo 2020).

AB - In this paper, I outline a method to decolonise the classroom by allowing students to exercise their critical thinking skills, thus exploring ways of seeing and doing that resist colonial ways of seeing and being – i.e. the colonial gaze. This method was inspired by my research on visual performances of sovereignty and disruptive acts of citizenship in Brazil. In line with the tension between performances of colonial subjects and the acts that disrupt such discourses, it allows for students to critically question and disrupt visual representations of racialised and gendered subjects and concepts like sovereignty, citizenship, international development, beauty, crime, or migrant, refugee and ex-pat that are closely related to coloniality and inequality. The method itself is simple and starts with students doing a Google Image search for a political, legal, cultural, or social concept, such as the above, or as we will see below, nation-states in the Global North and South (Guldberg 2022). This allows students to explore and question how these concepts have problematic and unequal relations to population and territory as the main components of a Western-centric understanding of sovereignty (Ayoob 2002) and international development (Mignolo 2020).

KW - Art

KW - memes

KW - activism

KW - Artificial inteligence

KW - decolonisation

M3 - Article

JO - Undotcomfortable - KCL decolonial Blog

JF - Undotcomfortable - KCL decolonial Blog

ER -