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   Todd Battistelli (fromtherostra@hcommons.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 21:49:50 JST Todd Battistelli

   • Matt Reed

   With discussion of “critical” AI literacy, I wanted to revisit this post by @deandad, inviting reflection on definitions: https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/%E2%80%98critical%E2%80%99#

   For myself, an early understanding of critical practice was strongly influenced by the work of the Frankfurt School.

   More recent influences, particularly adrienne maree brown’s work on emergent strategy, have led me to think about the role _conscientiousness_ plays in critical practice: intentionally tending to a multiplicity of perspectives.

   Intentionality is necessary because that multiplicity is so easily erased in favor of dominant voices that naturalize inequity as "just the way things are." In tending to people and perspectives overlooked and drowned out by the status quo, critical practice can also be a practice of care.

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     Todd Battistelli (fromtherostra@hcommons.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 21:49:49 JST Todd Battistelli

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     Exercising care is not compatible with dominant economic frameworks even as these frameworks try to disguise exploitation as care, such as the underpaid nurses and teachers who are expected to give away their labor for the greater good.

     In order to unsettle such ideological disguises and naturalizations, critical practice has to identify power differentials, explain how those differentials yield different (and unjust) outcomes, and articulate alternatives.

     #critical #CriticalTheory #EmergentStrategy #facilitation #organizing #solidarity #coalition #CriticalAI

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     Suzanne she/her (drsuzanne@ohai.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 21:50:28 JST Suzanne she/her

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     @FromTheRostra My doctoral research on trauma indicates and if you are not concerned about care for others then you are actively or passively contributing to the traumatization of others.