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Associate professor of art history @amherstcollege | South Asia & the larger Islamic world | she/her | no longer here so find me in the blue sky

Sep 24, 2020, 5 tweets

* stares in art historian * nature.com/articles/s4146…

It hadn't dawned on me till now that I work on cognitive fossils with low computed trustworthiness

Also the Eurocentrism and whiteness of the whole study! Colleagues, take heed (from Johanna Drucker, "Is there a Digital Art History," 12:

Kudos for bothering, but y'all, this isn't how art works.

Just imagine what might have come of Buddhism & Christianity had the early makers of the historical Buddha's and Jesus's portraits used a higher computed trustworthiness score 😟

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