Dr. Leonard Harris: Necro-Being & Plato's Allegory of The Cave - (AoE Ep 11)
In this episode of Algorithms of Empire, we speak with Dr. Leonard Harris, one of the most influential figures in contemporary African American philosophy, about necro-being, the limits of ethical theory, and the limits of reason itself.Building on his recent lecture, “Necro-Being and the Limits of Ethical Theory,” delivered at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics as part of the Algorithmic Bias Speaker Series, Harris reflects on his concept of necro-being: an approach to racism that foregrounds its material production of premature death, suffering, deprivation, and damaged…
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