September 29, 2022

Seminar with Ezekiel Dixon-Román

Part of the seminar series Thinking the Future: Conversations on Technology, Subjectivity and Ethics

Ezekiel’s research critically engages technologies of quantification, particularly the entanglement between power and inequality, and how these assemblages are produced and reproduced. He is deeply interested in how sociotechnical systems of quantification work on the body and generatively shape human learning and development. At the same time, his work is aimed at developing alternative philosophical and methodological practices of inquiry and quantification that counter and repotentialise the flows of social and political life. Ezekiel is the author of Inheriting Possibility: Social Reproduction & Quantification in Education (University of Minnesota Press) and the co-editor of Thinking Comprehensively About Education: Spaces of Educative Possibility and Their Implications for Public Policy (Routledge) for which he received the Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association in 2018. In this talk, Ezekiel address Blackness, measurement and algorithmic governance.