Dr ron eglash biography

Ron Eglash (born December 25, 1958, in Chestertown, Maryland) is.
Biography.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Cybernetics, a Master's in Systems Engineering, and a Ph.D.

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ron eglash

Ron Eglash (born December 25, 1958 in Chestertown, MD) is an American cyberneticist, university professor, and author widely known for his work in the field of ethnomathematics, which aims to study the diverse relationships between math and culture. His research includes the use of fractal patterns in African architecture, art, and religion, and the relationships between indigenous cultures and modern technology, such as that between Native American cultural and spiritual practices and cybernetics. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Cybernetics, a Master’s in Systems Engineering, and a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness, all from the University of California. A Fulbright fellowship enabled his postdoctoral field research on African ethnomathematics, which was later published in the book African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design.

Dr. Eglash has also conducted studies in teaching children math and computing through simulations of indigenous and vernacular cultural practices. He explains that the simulations do not impose math externally, but

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Dr. Ron Eglash

Published in Cultural Studies 12:382-409, 1998

Cybernetics and American Youth Subculture

Cybernetics, the interdisciplinary application and synthesis of information sciences, has occupied a central place in analyses of postmodernity as a cultural condition. Lyotard (1984:60) contends that a focus on information has led to sciences based on “undecidables, the limits of precise control, conflicts characterized by incomplete information, ‘fracta,’ catastrophes, and pragmatic paradoxies,” an anarchic freeing of information in which he sees socially liberating potential. Jameson (1991) sees the postmodern theme of “depthlessness” as both the product of cybernetic simulacra and the symptom of a social loss of history and place. Poster (1990) and Turkle (1995) suggest that cybernetic modes of communication have resulted in postmodern subjectivities in which personal (and even national) identity is unstable, multiple, and diffuse. Martin (1994) weaves the narratives of flexible accumulation in capitalism with the flexibility fostered by cybernetic models of t

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Computational prosthetics for a wounded body politic: designing for generative justice

Abstract

Contemporary disasters – racism, environmental destruction, labor exploitation, platforms that colonize our social networks, and so on – have one feature in common: they are all examples of value that is extracted; that is, alienated from its generative source. Computational technologies can be designed to act as prosthetics for this wounded body politic: restoring the ability to generate and circulate value rather than extract it. Supported by an NSF “Future of Work” grant, we report on some initial experiments in developing methods, techniques and strategies in the design of these technologies for generative justice.

Date

Feb 28, 2023 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM

Location

CSE 271 (Gates Building), Bill and Melinda Gates Building | Zoom

185 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA 98195

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Presenter Bio
Dr. Ron Eglash is a Professor in the School of Information at University of Michigan. He received his B.S. in Cybernetics, his