Computing Gender: Difference between revisions

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Within western context, referring to gender as an 'instrument of abstraction', sexualized in cultural practice. > Gayatri Spivak

With 'computing' she means the abstraction of knowledge by computed data, algorythms, large language models, etc. the globalizing forces that process information into strings of numbers, basically. Something that is not sensible to the experiencing being. 'gender', she situates by saying it's the name for those forces applied to sexual differences, and were named 'gender' by feminist speakers of English. > as in, specifying that this is the meaning she gives to the word.

Seeing gender as one of these instruments of abstraction, making distinctions, categories, that are then given social / cultural relevance.

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 Within western context, referring to gender as an 'instrument of abstraction', sexualized in cultural practice.
+> Gayatri Spivak
+With 'computing' she means the abstraction of knowledge by computed data, algorythms, large language models, etc. the globalizing forces that process information into strings of numbers, basically. Something that is not sensible to the experiencing being.
+'gender', she situates by saying it's the name for those forces applied to sexual differences, and were named 'gender' by feminist speakers of English. > as in, specifying that this is the meaning she gives to the word.
+Seeing gender as one of these instruments of abstraction, making distinctions, categories, that are then given social / cultural relevance.