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T1 - I Write What I Like and How I Like
T2 - ACM NordiCHI '24: Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - Live – Uniting HCI for a Hyperlocal and Global
AU - Adamu, Muhammad
N1 - © ACM, 2024. This is the author's accepted version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published at https://doi.org/10.1145/3677045.3685498
PY - 2024/10/13
Y1 - 2024/10/13
N2 - During the “Beyond Academia" panel at the Participatory Design Conference 2022 – which has strong foundations in Nordic traditions - colleagues considered a range of questions regarding the practice of the Design community, and the academy more broadly. One point that stayed with me from the panel was this: to be in academia or not to be. This is perhaps the fundamental question of philosophy, a question that might be considered as forcing one to take sides, for or against a proposition. As an exhibition and performance of defiance, this critique presents a forceful case for revolting against the absurdities of zero-point epistemologies of Western sciences that happened to be a central tenant of HCI knowledge production and dissemination practices. In doing so, I reflect on the ‘perceived’ challenges and opportunities in the academy as an early career African HCI research er protesting for and against the instrument of epistemic power. As we grapple with the crisis of solidaristic imagination across disciplines, I write what I like and how I like to survive (as in within the veil of the academy), with the hope that problematizing some dimension of HCI’s regime of power and knowledge will inspire you to imagine and converse otherwise.
AB - During the “Beyond Academia" panel at the Participatory Design Conference 2022 – which has strong foundations in Nordic traditions - colleagues considered a range of questions regarding the practice of the Design community, and the academy more broadly. One point that stayed with me from the panel was this: to be in academia or not to be. This is perhaps the fundamental question of philosophy, a question that might be considered as forcing one to take sides, for or against a proposition. As an exhibition and performance of defiance, this critique presents a forceful case for revolting against the absurdities of zero-point epistemologies of Western sciences that happened to be a central tenant of HCI knowledge production and dissemination practices. In doing so, I reflect on the ‘perceived’ challenges and opportunities in the academy as an early career African HCI research er protesting for and against the instrument of epistemic power. As we grapple with the crisis of solidaristic imagination across disciplines, I write what I like and how I like to survive (as in within the veil of the academy), with the hope that problematizing some dimension of HCI’s regime of power and knowledge will inspire you to imagine and converse otherwise.
U2 - 10.1145/3677045.3685498
DO - 10.1145/3677045.3685498
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9798400709654
SP - 1
EP - 10
BT - NordiCHI '24 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
PB - ACM
CY - New York
Y2 - 13 October 2024 through 16 October 2024
ER -