#epistemicviolence — Public Fediverse posts

Gestern habe ich in Kiel einen Vortrag zur epistemischen Gewalt der Digitalität gehalten und auf geschriebene Sprache als fundamentale Mensch-Maschine-Schnittstelle fokussiert (die Folien sind hier: https://tillgrallert.github.io/slides/dh/2026-kiel/).

Heute lerne ich beim Blick auf JSON-LD Exporte aus #Wikidata, dass zumindest #Python sämtliche nicht-ASCII Zeichen in JSON mit ihren Codepoints escaped: aus "école" wird "\u00e9cole”, aus "توفيق جانا" wird "\u062a\u0648\u0641\u064a\u0642 \u062c\u0627\u0646\u0627”. Mehr dazu unter https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python/python-encode-unicode-and-non-ascii-characters-into-json/

#multilingualDH #epistemicViolence #ASCII #Unicode

For the Global Majority world, the dilemma is sharp. Many languages and knowledge traditions are underrepresented in training data. But “fixing” that via ungoverned scraping turns communities into data sources, not decision-makers.

I argue that is 'extractive inclusion': being included in datasets without power over collection, use, representation, refusal, attribution, or benefit-sharing. This is a form of epistemic violence. (3/n)

#LLM #data #AI #epistemicviolence #inclusion

The more I experience your heteronormative othering and rejection, the more I feel a need to be public about my #transfemininity . By that I do not intend to submit myself by all surgical means to flawed norms and conventions of binary gender but, above all, being #trans and attacking your debilitated moral preconceptions about it.

Your political communication is nothing else than bullshit and you know it. You don‘t make up for your #epistemicviolence in church. You do it at home, where your #transkids hate you, in the streets, where sisters not gonna take yer shit just like that, you do it in our #queerfeminist academic writing and presentations, wherever that has impact.

:tranarchy_punk_transgender:

@beet_keeper call me unimpressed when their illustrative example is an arXiv preprint, for which people had to submit valid TeX and when all the world‘s linguistic diversity reduced to a single metric for “non-English”.

#TechBros #EpistemicViolence

Slide deck from a talk titled "The Geopolitics of Knowledge: Who Shapes What We Know Online?" that I delivered at the ISOC India (Mumbai Chapter) yesterday: zenodo.org/records/1745... #knowledge #openknowledge #epistemology #epistemicviolence #epistemicjustice #ISOC

Slide deck from a talk titled "The Geopolitics of Knowledge: Who Shapes What We Know Online?" that I delivered at the ISOC India (Mumbai Chapter) yesterday: https://zenodo.org/records/17455942

#knowledge #openknowledge #epistemology #epistemicviolence #epistemicjustice #epistemicinjustice #epistemicsuppression #ISOC @internetsociety

Yours truly is speaking virtually at this #ISOC event on October 26. DM or email me for the registration link.

#openness #openknowledge #epistemicjustice #epistemicviolence

Auch wenn Digitalität beim #DOT2026 eher marginalisiert wird, ist zu meiner Freude heute mein seit langem im Publikationsprozess steckender CLIO Guide zur Digitalisierung des Kulturerbes der Gesellschaften des Globalen Südens online gegangen. Wer etwas über die repräsentative Macht monolingualer Infrastrukturen, Zeichenkodierungen, Umschriften, Katalogen als historische Quelle, Schattenbibliotheken etc. etc. und das ganze auch noch am Beispiel arabischer Periodika erfahren möchte: https://doi.org/10.60693/p46s-8j72

#multilingualDH #epistemicViolence #characterEncoding #الصحافة_العربية

Democracy and the Epstein Regime: A Democracy Abused and Raped in Captivity https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5343801
#Epstein #DemocraticDecline #EliteCapture #LegalInstrumentalization #EpistemicViolence #MediaSilence #ImpunityRegime #TransnationalGovernance #Kompromat #Trump

Democracy and the Epstein Regime: A Democracy Abused and Raped in Captivity
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5343801
#JeffreyEpstein #DemocraticDecline #EliteCapture #LegalInstrumentalization #EpistemicViolence #MediaSilence #ImpunityRegime #TransnationalGovernance #Kompromat #SymbolicViolence #Democracy #EliteNetworks #MediaComplicity #LegalImpunity #SurveillanceCapitalism

Democracy and the Epstein Regime: A Democracy Abused and Raped in Captivity
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5343801
#JeffreyEpstein #DemocraticDecline #EliteCapture #LegalInstrumentalization #EpistemicViolence #MediaSilence #ImpunityRegime #TransnationalGovernance #Kompromat #SymbolicViolence #Democracy #EliteNetworks #MediaComplicity #LegalImpunity #SurveillanceCapitalism

1. stop parroting the faux intellectualism of fascists. #deconstruction is an antifascist form of academic analysis. what they mean is destruction.

2. #EpistemicViolence is censorship of all kinds. it’s meant to create a false narrative of agreement.

3. like “Gulf of America” #EpistemologicalViolence is meant to completely change reality by destroying all social contracts.

recognize these forms of violence. violence isn’t only by guns. it’s always by ideology first and foremost. / 🧵

3. it is important that we name properly what is happening.

a. banning books and words is what Gayatri Chkravorty-Spivak described as #EpistemicViolence. it’s the “my way or the highway” way of speaking and thinking that is at the heart of all forms of colonialism; settler, technological or otherwise.

Interlude: Epistemic Violence | SpringerLink - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-476-05598-9_14

the Wikipedia page on “epistemic injustice” needs to be renamed
Epistemic violence - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_injustice

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Governance and Conservation Effectiveness in Protected Areas and Indigenous and Locally Managed Areas

"We review the literature that compares the effectiveness of protected areas managed by states and areas managed by Indigenous peoples and/or local communities...The knowledges produced about protected areas and community conservation are created by different epistemic groups. They are not always commensurable."

"In what contexts are rural communities successfully able to empower their own governance of resources with welcome social and conservation outcomes, and what can we learn from these positive outliers?"
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https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-environ-112321-081348
#conservation #governance #EpistemicViolence #LoggingIndustry #NativeForests #Biodiversity #IndigenousPeoples

A licence for environmental and social harm?
What Is the 'Social Licence to Operate' for corporations? Pt 2

"In the face of substantial political critique in response to the unremitting violence initiated by extractivism, corporate entities have frequently called upon researchers, consultants and scientists to provide changing imaginaries and material frameworks through which extractivism can be conceived of in ways perceived as more banal, friendly and sympathetic to community needs. This has occurred even as such projects commit massive forms of ecological, environmental and social violence."
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A. Murrey, N. Jackson, M. Volonterio, 2023, 'Social Licence to Operate: The Role of an Idea in the Colonial Logics of Extractivism", Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1 -18
https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/mcs/article/view/8334/8154

What Is the 'Social Licence to Operate' for corporations? Pt 1
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/111356458269376201

#CorporateGovernance #SLO #SocialLicenceToOperate #ColonialLogics #consent #extractivism #EpistemicViolence #SocialScientists #trust #ethics #participation #governance #structures #practices #stakeholder #relationships #logging #mining #environment #protest #climate #biodiversity

A licence for environmental and social harm?
What Is the 'Social Licence to Operate' for corporations? Pt 1

The social licence to operate (SLO), or simply social licence, refers to the ongoing acceptance of a company or industry's standard business practices and operating procedures by its employees, stakeholders, and the general public.

When extractive projects come to your area, such as mining, logging, deforestation etc they command a social licence to operate. This ‘Social Licence to Operate' is a corporate risk management tool to obtain acceptance.

Consent-making mechanisms aim to get ‘community acceptance’ and foster community trust in gaining the social license to start or continue their extractive operations.

Corporate narratives seek to curtail anti-extractive dissent and community opposition. "SLO is ‘all about managing risk’ in order to avoid potential obstructions to extractive projects." Corporate representatives fear project disruptions.

Radical alternatives for liveable futures do not enter into the 'negotiations'. The mantra of 'jobs' and the hippocket interests generate ‘community acceptance’ to take a part in the usually ecologically damaging operations. Dissenting voices are met with violence and/or criminalisation.
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What Is the 'Social Licence to Operate' for corporations? Pt 2
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/111356460829387374

#CorporateGovernance #SLO #SocialLicenceToOperate #ColonialLogics #consent #extractivism #EpistemicViolence #SocialScientists #trust #ethics #participation #governance #structures #practices #stakeholder #relationships #logging #mining #environment #protest #climate #biodiversity

This historical account of epistemic violence is abhorrent. truly sick.

hits home in alotta ways too. fanatical mother, forced hospitalization, outside the norm in so many ways.

http://americanpomeroys.blogspot.com/2011/11/only-being-of-senceless-existence.html?m=1

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