Kathleen Daly Weisse

1 article
Marist College
  1. Algorithmic Abstraction and the Racial Neoliberal Rhetorics of 23andMe
    Abstract

    Western mathematics functions as a technology of violence when it enlists computational algorithms to underwrite racial neoliberalism. Theorizing algorithmic abstraction as a racial neoliberal technique, this article dramatizes the concept’s methodological affordances through a case study of 23andMe, which deploys algorithmic abstraction to affectively secure and sell Whiteness.

    doi:10.1080/07350198.2021.1922800