policy: seductions and silences

A legitimately technological undertaking must deeply engage with poetry and testimonies from the wretched of the earth.

A letter on Palestine from Logic(s) editor in chief J. Khadijah Abdurahman. 

A speculative story by Osahon Ize-Iyamu.

Two poems by Shivangi Mariam Raj where she “gather[s] shards of ceramic washed under my scream and forgive” and where “Shadow precedes presence.”

matthew reflects on his own experience of severance from his family into the home of evangelical Christians in an alleged sundown town. This non-fiction horror/memoir draws on the Black radical tradition to uneasily suture the fragments of his life, where possible.

A poem by Purbasha Roy.

A poem by Isra Hassan.

Sam Altman arrives as a mythological hero in the self-help-saturated capital city of South Korea. However, there’s more than meets the eye, including a radical art space that deconstructs the AI hype cycle for a Korean audience.

The ACLU gained access to data from Allegheny Family Screening Tool (the pilot for predictive risk modeling in the family policing context) and examines how utility and risk were unduly inflated by the county.

Tracing the history of Telangana’s police state and its Brahminical investments.

Medical recordkeeping was originally a way to chart a patient’s course of illness and support clinicians in finding the best course. Now, electronic health records have disrupted the foundation of the therapeutic relationship. What happened?

Kalundi Serumaga discovers an archive of African state TV broadcasts in London, and describes the fight to save colonial archives of Ugandan history and the stakes for Black African Indigenous peoples.

An interview with game developer Marina Kittaka (of Analgesic Studios) on her work and the state of the video games industry.

Unjustly terminated for doing what she was hired to do: advocate against the destruction of Black families, Burton states how all Black people want is to be left alone and collectively self-determine their lives.

Victoria has lost her voice, so we conducted this interview about disability scholarship, dismantling family policing and predictive risk modeling over text message.

Policy not just as in the state but as a set of guidelines or how we plan for Black life.

A conversation about the #PlayVicious Mastodon instance.

An explainer of language models and how they work, and their limits.

Transition is infinite motion. To transition is to sit in the inescapable space between violence and possibility. It is to both mourn death and revere life – to feel the ache of a burning body and still insist on the exigency of something beyond. Dharmaraj surveys contemporary Black trans scholarship, engages with anti-caste scholarship and reconsiders makeup as a holy act.

Finance editor Ed Ongweso on Israel’s strategy to weaken Palestinians’ ability to resist, in particular through the use of technology and water deprivation.

A comic on adversarial methods against AI extraction for artists.

Logic(s) designer in residence Bones Jones showcases their evolution from the previous issue with images from our underground Black, trans, and queer fashion show, Whimsical Magic.