J Loewen-Colón
Biographic Data
| ID | 1608321 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Loewen-Colón |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Loewen-Colón |
| SIGNATURE | LOEWEN-COLÓN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5360-3310 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Preventing AI extractivism
Artificial-intelligence systems are rapidly reproducing colonial extractivism by harvesting Indigenous linguistic, biometric, geospatial, and ecological data without consent, compensation, or accountability. Biotechnology offers a blueprint for curbing such practices: the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Nagoya Protocol obligate users of genetic resources to obtain Prior Informed Consent, negotiate Mutually Agreed Terms, and share benef…
Memetic memory as vital conduits of troublemakers in digital culture
Recent fears of data capitalism and colonialism often argue using implicit assumptions about cybernetic technology’s ability to automate data about culture. As such, the level of data granularity made possible by cybernetic engineering can be used to dominate society and culture. Here we unpack these implicit assumptions about the datafication of culture through memes, which both act as cultural data and cultural memory. Using Alexander Galloway’…
The Age of (the Algorithmic) Aquarius
Around the time when Jacob Boss approached us with the invitation to contribute to this American Religion roundtable on AI and algorithms, I (Sharday Mosurinjohn) had just been introduced to the esoteric algorithm called "Human Design" 1 by a friend in the psychedelic space, which is where the bulk of my research now takes place. 2 As I delved deeper into the world of psychonauts and psychedelic scientists, I discovered a vibrant cauldron, bubbli…
Fabulation, Machine Agents, and Spiritually Authorizing Encounters
This paper uses a Tavesian model of religious experience to make a modest theorization about the role of "fabulation", an embodied and affective process, to understand how some contemporary AI and robotics designers and users consider encounters with these technologies to be spiritually "authorizing". By "fabulation", we mean the Bergsonian concept of an evolved capacity that allows humans to see the potentialities of complex action within anothe…
The Age of (the Algorithmic) Aquarius
Around the time when Jacob Boss approached us with the invitation to contribute to this American Religion roundtable on AI and algorithms, I (Sharday Mosurinjohn) had just been introduced to the esoteric algorithm called "Human Design" 1 by a friend in the psychedelic space, which is where the bulk of my research now takes place. 2 As I delved deeper into the world of psychonauts and psychedelic scientists, I discovered a vibrant cauldron, bubbli…
Fabulation, Machine Agents, and Spiritually Authorizing Encounters
This paper uses a Tavesian model of religious experience to make a modest theorization about the role of "fabulation", an embodied and affective process, to understand how some contemporary AI and robotics designers and users consider encounters with these technologies to be spiritually "authorizing". By "fabulation", we mean the Bergsonian concept of an evolved capacity that allows humans to see the potentialities of complex action within anothe…
Fabulation, Machine Agents, and Spiritually Authorizing Encounters
This paper uses a Tavesian model of religious experience to make a modest theorization about the role of "fabulation", an embodied and affective process, to understand how some contemporary AI and robotics designers and users consider encounters with these technologies to be spiritually "authorizing". By "fabulation", we mean the Bergsonian concept of an evolved capacity that allows humans to see the potentialities of complex action within anothe…
The Age of (the Algorithmic) Aquarius
Around the time when Jacob Boss approached us with the invitation to contribute to this American Religion roundtable on AI and algorithms, I (Sharday Mosurinjohn) had just been introduced to the esoteric algorithm called "Human Design" 1 by a friend in the psychedelic space, which is where the bulk of my research now takes place. 2 As I delved deeper into the world of psychonauts and psychedelic scientists, I discovered a vibrant cauldron, bubbli…
Memetic memory as vital conduits of troublemakers in digital culture
Recent fears of data capitalism and colonialism often argue using implicit assumptions about cybernetic technology’s ability to automate data about culture. As such, the level of data granularity made possible by cybernetic engineering can be used to dominate society and culture. Here we unpack these implicit assumptions about the datafication of culture through memes, which both act as cultural data and cultural memory. Using Alexander Galloway’…
Preventing AI extractivism
Artificial-intelligence systems are rapidly reproducing colonial extractivism by harvesting Indigenous linguistic, biometric, geospatial, and ecological data without consent, compensation, or accountability. Biotechnology offers a blueprint for curbing such practices: the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Nagoya Protocol obligate users of genetic resources to obtain Prior Informed Consent, negotiate Mutually Agreed Terms, and share benef…
Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Accountability (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · AI in Service Interactions (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work)