Ezekiel Dixon-Román
Biographic Data
| ID | 166444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ezekiel Dixon-Román |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ezekiel |
| FAMILY NAME | Dixon-Román |
| SIGNATURE | DIXON-ROMÁN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4010-9540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Process, the Political, and Knowing How to Act
Recursive apocalypse
This article posits that the recursive algorithm of apocalypse, including fascism, can be understood as part of the continuous logic of recursive colonialism. Recursive colonialism explains the relationship between Western European colonialism, the bio-economic model of extraction and computational technology at the core of racial capitalism and its current intensification through the massive planetary deployment of artificial intelligence system…
Blackness & Measurement
Cosmocomputation and Negpoethics
While an epistemology of noise-as-contingency has become central to the contemporary critique of AI, this article rather focuses on a politics of noise as contingency. This article turns to the function of contingency for recursive logic by raising the question: Why is recursivity so central to map the cultural and political logic of AI? It is argued that the relationship between recursivity and contingency unravels a dynamic reconfiguration of c…
Speculative Capture: Literacy after Platformization
This conceptual article examines the role of speculation in driving responses to generative AI platforms in literacy education and the implications for research, pedagogy, and practice. Our focus on “speculation” encompasses two meanings of the term – each of which has inspired lively lines of inquiry in literacy studies and transdisciplinary research on artificial intelligence, respectively. In the first sense, literacy scholars have recognized …
Diffracting Boundaries: Toward Post-Philosophies of Quantification and the Black Radical Tradition
This article is derived from a webinar series conversation titled, “Post Philosophies and the Doing of Inquiry” co-hosted by Candace R. Kuby and Viv Bozalek. Featured in this conversation is Ezekiel Dixon-Román and he discusses some of the backgrounds to his scholarship and how he has come to his questions and approach of inquiry on/in quantification and the Black radical tradition. He and his students discuss their respective projects and the in…
Becoming Shuri: CTE, Racializing Affect, and the Becoming‐Technologist
Racializing affect draws on Black feminist theories to extend affect theory and related poststructuralist approaches within literacy studies. The authors examined literacies via a study of affect and youth of color in career and technical education (CTE) and the reconfiguration of CTE to enable radical change in the racializing experiences of/with technologies. An information technology classroom and its spatial arrangements, plus the larger CTE …
Philosophy of education in a new key: Future of philosophy of education
What is the future of Philosophy of education? Or as many of scholars and thinkers in this final ‘future-focused’ collective piece from the Philosophy of Education in a New Key Series put it, what are the futures—plural and multiple—of the intersections of ‘philosophy’ and ‘education?’ What is ‘Philosophy’; and what is ‘Education’, and what role may ‘enquiry’ play? Is the future of education and philosophy embracing—or at least taking seriously—a…
The Changing Terrains of Research in a Time of Pandemic
If the regularities in the social, cultural, and political spheres are what we characterize as certainties, then what do we make of and do about the uncertainties? In this moment of pandemic, many
Embracing the Speculative: Pedagogical and Methodological Crossroads
There is continued uncertainty in these times. So many questions have remained unanswered. Quarantined in our respective dwellings, many of us at colleges and universities entered online learning a
Data capitalism and the counter futures of ethics in artificial intelligence
Ethics in data science and artificial intelligence have gained broader prominence in both scholarly and public discourse. Much of the scholarly engagements have often been based on perspectives of transparency, politics of representation, moral ethical norms, and refusal. In this article, while the authors agree that there is a problem with the universal model of technology, they argue that what these perspectives do not address is the postcoloni…
Multigenerational Forces and Regenerative Capacities: Matter, Weather, Flesh, and the Sociogenic
To what extent are multigenerational forces associated with the becoming of measured academic skills? This study argues that by considering inhuman(e) ontologies such as a system of racialized structural relations, a new materialist and radical black feminist lens opens up new possibilities for conceptualizing and understanding how shifting structures of sociopolitical relations have had temporally enfolding (re)configured and (re)produced differ…
Post-colorblindness; Or, racialized speech after symbolic racism
Post-colorblindness; Or, racialized speech after symbolic racism." Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50(14), pp. 1386–1387
Urban” Schooling and “Urban” Families: The Role of Context and Place
Conceptualizations of urban context and place in research, practice, and policy are relational, ranging from spatial dimensions to cultural practices of children, families, and communities in metropolitan areas. In this article, we focus on the inherent complexity of these conceptualizations and long-standing debates in education and social science research that label urban as a point of both identity and designation. We position urban context it…
Algo-Ritmo: More-Than-Human Performative Acts and the Racializing Assemblages of Algorithmic Architectures
What happens when more-than-human digital acts tell us something about ourselves? This article examines the ways in which the algorithms of data analytics function in relation to other ontologies and assemblages and how they are shaping and forming our lives. Beginning by critically questioning the ontology of data, data are argued to be an assemblage that is materially and discursively produced from a multiplicity of apparatuses including sociop…
Alternative Ontologies of Number: Rethinking the Quantitative in Computational Culture
Diffractive Possibilities: Cultural Studies and Quantification
Cultural studies have not shared the widespread belief in quantitative methods. On one hand, the dominant orientation of quantitative social science research continues to hold on to positivist assumptions of objectivity and the privileged access to the “truths” of natural phenomena via the logics of mathematics. On other hand, cultural studies have maintained a hermeneutics of suspicion toward the methods of quantification. But, to what extent do…
The Forms of Capital and the Developed Achievement of Black Males
This study sought to examine the association of the various forms of capital on the developed achievement of Black males. As one of the richest longitudinal family economic data sets, the Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics is used to estimate multilevel growth models of the math and reading achievement of Black males. Results suggest that the family’s permanent income has a large positive effect on the level of bot…
Youth Poets: Empowering Literacies In and Out of Schools - By Korina M. Jocson
Youth Poets: Empowering Literacies In and Out of Schools . Korina M. Jocson . New York : Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. , 2008 . 228 pp. Reviewed by Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román and Deepa Vasudevan, University of Pennsylvania In Youth Poets: Empowering Literacies In and Out of Schools, Korina Jocson illuminates the role that reading, writing, and performing poetry plays in shaping young people's lives. The author provides critical insight into adolescent …
Habits of the Heart: Youth Religious Participation as Progress, Peril, or Change
The landscape of youth religious participation is an underengaged area across both the humanities and social science. While the humanities lack empirical data on the changing religious life worlds of youths, existing empirical work in the social sciences suggests that institutional religion buffers criminality and delinquency—a brand of engagement the authors refer to as “buffering transgression.” This is a process that both conceives and privile…
Urban” Schooling and “Urban” Families: The Role of Context and Place
Conceptualizations of urban context and place in research, practice, and policy are relational, ranging from spatial dimensions to cultural practices of children, families, and communities in metropolitan areas. In this article, we focus on the inherent complexity of these conceptualizations and long-standing debates in education and social science research that label urban as a point of both identity and designation. We position urban context it…
Algo-Ritmo: More-Than-Human Performative Acts and the Racializing Assemblages of Algorithmic Architectures
What happens when more-than-human digital acts tell us something about ourselves? This article examines the ways in which the algorithms of data analytics function in relation to other ontologies and assemblages and how they are shaping and forming our lives. Beginning by critically questioning the ontology of data, data are argued to be an assemblage that is materially and discursively produced from a multiplicity of apparatuses including sociop…
Philosophy of education in a new key: Future of philosophy of education
What is the future of Philosophy of education? Or as many of scholars and thinkers in this final ‘future-focused’ collective piece from the Philosophy of Education in a New Key Series put it, what are the futures—plural and multiple—of the intersections of ‘philosophy’ and ‘education?’ What is ‘Philosophy’; and what is ‘Education’, and what role may ‘enquiry’ play? Is the future of education and philosophy embracing—or at least taking seriously—a…
Alternative Ontologies of Number: Rethinking the Quantitative in Computational Culture
Diffractive Possibilities: Cultural Studies and Quantification
Cultural studies have not shared the widespread belief in quantitative methods. On one hand, the dominant orientation of quantitative social science research continues to hold on to positivist assumptions of objectivity and the privileged access to the “truths” of natural phenomena via the logics of mathematics. On other hand, cultural studies have maintained a hermeneutics of suspicion toward the methods of quantification. But, to what extent do…
The Forms of Capital and the Developed Achievement of Black Males
This study sought to examine the association of the various forms of capital on the developed achievement of Black males. As one of the richest longitudinal family economic data sets, the Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics is used to estimate multilevel growth models of the math and reading achievement of Black males. Results suggest that the family’s permanent income has a large positive effect on the level of bot…
Becoming Shuri: CTE, Racializing Affect, and the Becoming‐Technologist
Racializing affect draws on Black feminist theories to extend affect theory and related poststructuralist approaches within literacy studies. The authors examined literacies via a study of affect and youth of color in career and technical education (CTE) and the reconfiguration of CTE to enable radical change in the racializing experiences of/with technologies. An information technology classroom and its spatial arrangements, plus the larger CTE …
Speculative Capture: Literacy after Platformization
This conceptual article examines the role of speculation in driving responses to generative AI platforms in literacy education and the implications for research, pedagogy, and practice. Our focus on “speculation” encompasses two meanings of the term – each of which has inspired lively lines of inquiry in literacy studies and transdisciplinary research on artificial intelligence, respectively. In the first sense, literacy scholars have recognized …
Cosmocomputation and Negpoethics
While an epistemology of noise-as-contingency has become central to the contemporary critique of AI, this article rather focuses on a politics of noise as contingency. This article turns to the function of contingency for recursive logic by raising the question: Why is recursivity so central to map the cultural and political logic of AI? It is argued that the relationship between recursivity and contingency unravels a dynamic reconfiguration of c…
Data capitalism and the counter futures of ethics in artificial intelligence
Ethics in data science and artificial intelligence have gained broader prominence in both scholarly and public discourse. Much of the scholarly engagements have often been based on perspectives of transparency, politics of representation, moral ethical norms, and refusal. In this article, while the authors agree that there is a problem with the universal model of technology, they argue that what these perspectives do not address is the postcoloni…
Post-colorblindness; Or, racialized speech after symbolic racism
Post-colorblindness; Or, racialized speech after symbolic racism." Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50(14), pp. 1386–1387
Habits of the Heart: Youth Religious Participation as Progress, Peril, or Change
The landscape of youth religious participation is an underengaged area across both the humanities and social science. While the humanities lack empirical data on the changing religious life worlds of youths, existing empirical work in the social sciences suggests that institutional religion buffers criminality and delinquency—a brand of engagement the authors refer to as “buffering transgression.” This is a process that both conceives and privile…
Youth Poets: Empowering Literacies In and Out of Schools - By Korina M. Jocson
Youth Poets: Empowering Literacies In and Out of Schools . Korina M. Jocson . New York : Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. , 2008 . 228 pp. Reviewed by Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román and Deepa Vasudevan, University of Pennsylvania In Youth Poets: Empowering Literacies In and Out of Schools, Korina Jocson illuminates the role that reading, writing, and performing poetry plays in shaping young people's lives. The author provides critical insight into adolescent …
The Forms of Capital and the Developed Achievement of Black Males
This study sought to examine the association of the various forms of capital on the developed achievement of Black males. As one of the richest longitudinal family economic data sets, the Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics is used to estimate multilevel growth models of the math and reading achievement of Black males. Results suggest that the family’s permanent income has a large positive effect on the level of bot…
Algo-Ritmo: More-Than-Human Performative Acts and the Racializing Assemblages of Algorithmic Architectures
What happens when more-than-human digital acts tell us something about ourselves? This article examines the ways in which the algorithms of data analytics function in relation to other ontologies and assemblages and how they are shaping and forming our lives. Beginning by critically questioning the ontology of data, data are argued to be an assemblage that is materially and discursively produced from a multiplicity of apparatuses including sociop…
Alternative Ontologies of Number: Rethinking the Quantitative in Computational Culture
Diffractive Possibilities: Cultural Studies and Quantification
Cultural studies have not shared the widespread belief in quantitative methods. On one hand, the dominant orientation of quantitative social science research continues to hold on to positivist assumptions of objectivity and the privileged access to the “truths” of natural phenomena via the logics of mathematics. On other hand, cultural studies have maintained a hermeneutics of suspicion toward the methods of quantification. But, to what extent do…
Urban” Schooling and “Urban” Families: The Role of Context and Place
Conceptualizations of urban context and place in research, practice, and policy are relational, ranging from spatial dimensions to cultural practices of children, families, and communities in metropolitan areas. In this article, we focus on the inherent complexity of these conceptualizations and long-standing debates in education and social science research that label urban as a point of both identity and designation. We position urban context it…
Post-colorblindness; Or, racialized speech after symbolic racism
Post-colorblindness; Or, racialized speech after symbolic racism." Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50(14), pp. 1386–1387
Multigenerational Forces and Regenerative Capacities: Matter, Weather, Flesh, and the Sociogenic
To what extent are multigenerational forces associated with the becoming of measured academic skills? This study argues that by considering inhuman(e) ontologies such as a system of racialized structural relations, a new materialist and radical black feminist lens opens up new possibilities for conceptualizing and understanding how shifting structures of sociopolitical relations have had temporally enfolding (re)configured and (re)produced differ…
The Changing Terrains of Research in a Time of Pandemic
If the regularities in the social, cultural, and political spheres are what we characterize as certainties, then what do we make of and do about the uncertainties? In this moment of pandemic, many
Embracing the Speculative: Pedagogical and Methodological Crossroads
There is continued uncertainty in these times. So many questions have remained unanswered. Quarantined in our respective dwellings, many of us at colleges and universities entered online learning a
Data capitalism and the counter futures of ethics in artificial intelligence
Ethics in data science and artificial intelligence have gained broader prominence in both scholarly and public discourse. Much of the scholarly engagements have often been based on perspectives of transparency, politics of representation, moral ethical norms, and refusal. In this article, while the authors agree that there is a problem with the universal model of technology, they argue that what these perspectives do not address is the postcoloni…
Becoming Shuri: CTE, Racializing Affect, and the Becoming‐Technologist
Racializing affect draws on Black feminist theories to extend affect theory and related poststructuralist approaches within literacy studies. The authors examined literacies via a study of affect and youth of color in career and technical education (CTE) and the reconfiguration of CTE to enable radical change in the racializing experiences of/with technologies. An information technology classroom and its spatial arrangements, plus the larger CTE …
Philosophy of education in a new key: Future of philosophy of education
What is the future of Philosophy of education? Or as many of scholars and thinkers in this final ‘future-focused’ collective piece from the Philosophy of Education in a New Key Series put it, what are the futures—plural and multiple—of the intersections of ‘philosophy’ and ‘education?’ What is ‘Philosophy’; and what is ‘Education’, and what role may ‘enquiry’ play? Is the future of education and philosophy embracing—or at least taking seriously—a…
Diffracting Boundaries: Toward Post-Philosophies of Quantification and the Black Radical Tradition
This article is derived from a webinar series conversation titled, “Post Philosophies and the Doing of Inquiry” co-hosted by Candace R. Kuby and Viv Bozalek. Featured in this conversation is Ezekiel Dixon-Román and he discusses some of the backgrounds to his scholarship and how he has come to his questions and approach of inquiry on/in quantification and the Black radical tradition. He and his students discuss their respective projects and the in…
Speculative Capture: Literacy after Platformization
This conceptual article examines the role of speculation in driving responses to generative AI platforms in literacy education and the implications for research, pedagogy, and practice. Our focus on “speculation” encompasses two meanings of the term – each of which has inspired lively lines of inquiry in literacy studies and transdisciplinary research on artificial intelligence, respectively. In the first sense, literacy scholars have recognized …
Process, the Political, and Knowing How to Act
Recursive apocalypse
This article posits that the recursive algorithm of apocalypse, including fascism, can be understood as part of the continuous logic of recursive colonialism. Recursive colonialism explains the relationship between Western European colonialism, the bio-economic model of extraction and computational technology at the core of racial capitalism and its current intensification through the massive planetary deployment of artificial intelligence system…
Blackness & Measurement
Cosmocomputation and Negpoethics
While an epistemology of noise-as-contingency has become central to the contemporary critique of AI, this article rather focuses on a politics of noise as contingency. This article turns to the function of contingency for recursive logic by raising the question: Why is recursivity so central to map the cultural and political logic of AI? It is argued that the relationship between recursivity and contingency unravels a dynamic reconfiguration of c…
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