Silas Temba

The ‘Plasticity’ of the Algorithm: Affective Labour, Machine Inference, and the Defence of Kibagenge in Kenya’s Creative Economy

It is argued that Western algorithms are deficient relative to the realities of two interlocking East African relational constructs, Kibagenge, and Utu, in Kenya and protecting the future of labour related to African performance will require transcending Western theories of discrete emotions and developing forms of technology governance that respect collective relational epistemologies.