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It's a pleasure and an honor to have been given the chance to contribute to Places Journal and their new series "Field Notes on Design Activism". I'm delighted to share the pages with a brilliant and thoughtful group of writers, designers and educators @thandiloewenson, @aneeshadharwadker, @chengstein2, @miakimiak, @gmane16, @adam_yarinsky, @o.saloojee and @adnanzm2021 I would like to extend my gratitude to Nancy Levinson for the generous invitation to share my thoughts on AI activism with the audience of Places Journal. A big shout out to the excellent editorial team of Places Journal, Francés Richard and Nick Gamso! You can find the article at www.placesjournal.org #aiactivism #placesjournal #fieldnotesonactivism #ai_activism https://www.instagram.com/p/CkbwJk0OiRs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

You might trace this back to a cultural obsession with shadows and spotlights, drawing a line from Hollywood noir—in which long shadows and unlit corners represent the criminal underworld—to the contemporary politics of surveillance. This is a pretty long essay, so if you don’t have the time to read, I summarized the good stuff in a Twitter thread. Or you can listen to me blab about it on 99% Invisible, KCRW’s Design and Architecture, and Not Built For Us, a podcast about environmental inequality.

“The Art of Public Service” article one the Places Journal by  Amelia Taylor-Hochberg Image: London Underground bulls-eye, or roundel, designed by Edward Johnston; drawing from 1925. [©TfL, London Transport Museum]