Situated Bayes – Feminist and Pluriversal Perspectives on Bayesian Knowledge

Special issue of Computational Culture, edited by Juni Schindler, Goda Klumbytė, & Matthew Fuller

(Open Access)

Computational Culture, Issue Ten

AI Design Interventions for Social Diversity Bayesian statistics Situated knowledges Feminist epistemologies Pluriversal perspectives

Computational Culture (10), a special issue “Situated Bayes – feminist and pluriversal perspectives on Bayesian knowledge”, edited and introduced in an ediutorial article by Juni Schindler, Goda Klumbytė, and Matthew Fuller:

The special issue aims to trace provisional resonances and dissonances between Bayesian perspectives and feminist, decolonial, pluriversal epistemologies, with contributions from diverse fields including machine learning and data science, science & technology studies, feminist & decolonial epistemologies, philosophy of mathematics, cultural critique, and others, opening a transdisciplinary research agenda for the future.

Special Issue Contents

Introduction: Juni Schindler, Goda Klumbytė, Matthew Fuller, Situated Bayes – Feminist and pluriversal perspectives on Bayesian knowledge
Articles:
- Clemens Apprich, Learning How to Learn: Abduction as the ‘Missing Link’ in Machine Learning
- Alan F. Blackwell, Nicola J. Bidwell and Charlie Nqeisji, Computing a Pluriversal Future
- Elizabeth de Freitas, Quantum cognition and the limits of classical probability models
- David Gauthier, The Cancelling Out of Chance
- Christopher Lawless, Subversive Witness: The Disruptive Influence of Bayes Theorem on Forensic Science
- Adrian Mackenzie, Generating samples: re-writing Bayes Rule as a probabilistic AI hack
- Conrad Moriarty Cole, Poetics of Opacity: Glissant and Bayes
- Krystin Unverzagt, Tobias Krueger, Anja Klein, Márk Somogyvári, Rossella Alba, Situating Bayesian Knowledge: A Case Study of Modelling Pollutant Transfers from Land to Water
Interview: Maria Chehonadskih and Matthew Fuller, Life-building and Perspectival Vision, an interview with Maria Chehonadskih, author of Alexander Bogdanov and the Politics of Knowledge after the October Revolution.