CHCI 2018: Achille Mbembe - 'Algorithmic Reason and Planetary Humanities'

Humanities Informatics is emerging as a new field in response to these developments. There are clear connections here to the work done in digital humanities, including the manipulation and visualization of data. But humanities informatics is less concerned with the actual computation of data than it is with the ways in which data structures and algorithms inform political economy, humanistic cultural production, human scientific endeavors, and studies of the evolution of human life itself. The 2018 CHCI conference on Humanities Informatics showcased the power of the humanities to address these urgent questions about the ‘human’ in our information age.

Achille Mbembe is Research Professor in History and Politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is coeditor of Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis, also published by Duke University Press, and the author of On the Postcolony as well as several books in French.

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Hi!
I was wondering if there is a transcript of this lecture? Thanks