Welcome to the Logic(s) Podcast
Co-hosts Mallika Dharmaraj and Khadijah Abdurahman set the stage for the first season of the Logic(s) podcast in this inaugural episode. The wide ranging conversation examines the way digitization and adoption of predictive risk modeling transforms the logics for systems of punishment, lower case and capital letter versions of academic disciplines and what an “all hands on deck” approach to critically interrogating technologies globally looks like.
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Co-hosts Mallika Dharmaraj and Khadijah Abdurahman set the stage for the first season of the Logic(s) podcast in this inaugural episode. The wide ranging conversation examines the way digitization and adoption of predictive risk modeling transforms the logics for systems of punishment, lower case and capital letter versions of academic disciplines and what an “all hands on deck” approach to critically interrogating technologies globally looks like.
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Show notes
- Meditations on Life and Logic(s) by Khadijah Abdurahman
- The Power of the Archive and its Limits by Achille Mbembe
- Surveillance in transit: a chronology of databases, power, complicity, and ‘the Aadhaar model’ in the Indian Ocean World by Mallika Dharmaraj
- Tigray, Oromia, and The Ethiopian Empire by Ayantu Tibeso and Khadijah Abdurahman
- Protests erupt as India passes citizenship law
- Criminal Tribes Act, 1871
- The Criminal Tribes Act of 1871 and its Global Legacy
- Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture by Hortense J. Spillers
- MOSIP Connect 2026 targets sustainability, practical use cases for Digital ID
- The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026
- Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism by Marquis Bey
- Beyond the Panopticon? Foucault and Surveillance Studies
- Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne
- India’s ChatGPT moment: Govt picks Sarvam AI to build first indigenous foundation model
- Transgender | The Marshall Project
- We Be Imagining Podcast
- Engineering infrastructural power over software production: the case of software-as-a-service by Donald Jay Bertulfo and Seda Gürses
- Digital Controls, Mobility and Surveillance; the Social Universe of ‘Reasonable Suspicion’ and its Different Guilds by Didier Bigo
- Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks
- Within the Operational Enclosure: Surveillance and Subversion in Northwest China by Darren Byler
- Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
- AI, surveillance and the privatisation of migration management
- ‘We should be worried’: report sheds light on ICE’s booming arsenal of hi-tech surveillance tools | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian
- All the Ways Palantir is Assisting Trump’s Abusive Removal Campaign | American Civil Liberties Union
- Technologies of Black Freedoms: Calling On Black Studies Scholars, with SA Smythe
