https://doi.org/10.67147/literariness.v1i2.001
Remoulding Algorithms of Gender: A View of Adolescence
Dr Sreepriya R
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Govt. College, Madappally Kerala, India
Abstract: Katherine Hayles, in her works, has repeatedly demonstrated how code as a performative practice is located. In her book Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious, Hayles traces the nonconscious cognition of biological life-forms and computational media. Contemporary critical engagements with machine learning systems that follows up the theories of Donna Haraway, Katherine Hayles, Rosi Braidotti and others also involve the idea that human bodies are always already caught up in the algorithms that govern and constitute them. Yet, in our thoroughly digitized lives, the structures of socially constructed consciousness that are subtly embedded within the micro-movements of algorithms and artificial intelligence tend to be overlooked. Algorithms also carry within them human conditions that predate the algorithms themselves. I argue in this paper that dismantling and reworking one’s own algorithm and refusing to remain confined within outdated moral bubbles or “filter bubbles” (Pariser) is a posthuman task that is vital to critical media literacy. In the premise of posthuman gender theories of Haraway and Braidotti, I observe the series Adolescence and its context of toxic assemblages to situate the broader frameworks of gender and posthuman existence.
Keywords: Algorithms, Masculinity, Adolescence, Cyborg, Posthuman
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