michel wahome @michelwahome
Researcher. Lecturer @STSUCL. Post-colonial Science and Technology Studies. Coloniality in knowledge production. Africa. Joined August 2017-
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Open (free) access to new book, Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities, includes chapter on plant ethics for the arts by Magdalena Zamorska: Phyto-care protocols: An ethics for living (with) plants in arts [select open access PDF format] url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/hb7FCzqg1Di4…
BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)
Call for Papers – You Are Here: poetic gestures and creative ecologies from the garden. Submit abstracts by May 16, 2025. 1-day conference to be held in Montpellier, France Oct 17, 2025. ualk.ff.cuni.cz/2025/02/21/cal…
New essay by me – I argue that the best way to understand artificial intelligence is via the Tinkerbell Effect. This technology's existence requires us to keep channeling our psychic energy into the dreams of mega-corporations, tech billionaires, and venture capitalists.
2/5 Research Fellows [X2] will join us in early 2025 to lead on these themes. We have a project team n partners spread across 4 continents supported by Advisory Board with expertise in the fields of AI, critical data studies, production networks n science and technology studies.
Kalundi Serumaga interrogates the usefulness of the terms ‘workers’ and ‘working class’ outside of Western industrial society, & reflects on how the oral history method might be one way to better understand the exploited & oppressed in their own words. roape.net/2024/12/05/tal…
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Call for short stories by Jan 31, 2025 for an anthology from Posthuman Press. Theme: Posthuman Entanglement(s) & Co-Existence. "We need stories as a creative practice to help foster posthuman ethics for a more inclusive and pluralistic present and future" posthumanpress.com/pages/antholog…
Tomorrow....Seminar with Florence Okoye appliedafricansf.com/2024/10/09/lau…
Full article: Of Bloatware and Spreadsheets: Nairobi, Chinese Phones, and the Limits of Data Coloniality tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
AJR 2001 gets a lot of attention, but their thinking has considerably evolved. The dynamic trio now examine connections with religion, ideological persuasion & prestige bias My history of AJR’s big contributions 👇 ggd.world/p/congratulati…
Please think about the legacy of colonialism on how we *think* about development How it can generate double standards & false puzzles That is what's missing
Please think about the legacy of colonialism on how we *think* about development How it can generate double standards & false puzzles That is what's missing
The prize to Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson (AJR) reminded me of a 2016 piece I wrote for @africasacountry calling out AJR’s sloppy theoretical reasoning behind their empirical work on institutions. My @africasacountry piece was a review of Morten Jerven’s Africa: Why Economists…
The prize to Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson (AJR) reminded me of a 2016 piece I wrote for @africasacountry calling out AJR’s sloppy theoretical reasoning behind their empirical work on institutions. My @africasacountry piece was a review of Morten Jerven’s Africa: Why Economists… https://t.co/TWyIs5Pjl9
Evidence, if you ever needed it, of mainstream economics' breadth without depth. Colonial institutions extracted value and wealth from the Global South, forming the basis of Global North prosperity. This work depoliticises the historical process of decolonisation and distorts…
Evidence, if you ever needed it, of mainstream economics' breadth without depth. Colonial institutions extracted value and wealth from the Global South, forming the basis of Global North prosperity. This work depoliticises the historical process of decolonisation and distorts…
When it comes to Africa, their work is ahistorical (misinterpretation) that doesn't acknowledge previous studies on the issue with a differnt view such as Samir Amin, Mohammed Mamdani Thandika Makandwire, Archie Mafeje, among other. Agree wt@haugejostein point abt North's inst'n
When it comes to Africa, their work is ahistorical (misinterpretation) that doesn't acknowledge previous studies on the issue with a differnt view such as Samir Amin, Mohammed Mamdani Thandika Makandwire, Archie Mafeje, among other. Agree wt@haugejostein point abt North's inst'n
But is it economics? Congratulations to my colleagues—especially James, who describes himself as a “recovering economist”. He taught me my first political economy of development class 21y ago, then became my colleague when he recruited me to @HarrisPolicy and @PearsonInst 8y…
But is it economics? Congratulations to my colleagues—especially James, who describes himself as a “recovering economist”. He taught me my first political economy of development class 21y ago, then became my colleague when he recruited me to @HarrisPolicy and @PearsonInst 8y…
Lol I spent last week in class deconstructing how their take on how institutions are formed and affect prosperity is Eurocentric, ahistorical, and wrong 💅🏽 😂
Lol I spent last week in class deconstructing how their take on how institutions are formed and affect prosperity is Eurocentric, ahistorical, and wrong 💅🏽 😂
The work by today's winners of the Nobel Prize in economics has been challenged by scholars like Yuen Yuen Ang, Mushtaq Khan, and Ha-Joon Chang. Read them! Then you will understand that enforcing the North's capitalist institutions in the South does not lead to development.
The work by today's winners of the Nobel Prize in economics has been challenged by scholars like Yuen Yuen Ang, Mushtaq Khan, and Ha-Joon Chang. Read them! Then you will understand that enforcing the North's capitalist institutions in the South does not lead to development.
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