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An Afternoon with Slavoj Zizek -- Marx

Why Theory

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Trotsky's Message to the People Was Horrible

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Who draws the lines on the maps of to morrow,
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we're
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in our roadside market in the second largest township in south africa, timbeza, home to more than half a million people. It's morning. People are dodging traffic to buy fruits and vegetables. It's a close up scene of life in south africa. But right now we're here to tell the story of an a i researcher who is mapping the spatial legacy of apartide. Like many other townships, timbesa was established when black africans were forcibly relocated during the apartide era. A lot has changed here since then, but the area is still marked by deep poverty, waste water, electricity altages. Now shift your perspective to a bird's eye view of timbeza. You'll see a tiht rid of streets and a dense population with little green space. But just next door is the city of kempton park. From above, we see large homes on leafy, tree lined streets beside luxurious golf courses. It's like another world, yet it's right next door. As
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much as abartet has ended, the visual characteristics of townships are still the same. That's
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computer vision researcher rice ge safala a some one who grew up in south africa. She knows that where people live can keep them from economic opportunities. It determines access to education, health care and jobs. I've also seen this in chicago and where i live in the washington, d c area, where you'll find some of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the united states sitting right next door to extreme poverty. You see it in brazil and lots of other places outside of south africa. But often the spatial dimension of inequality is overlooked. Even when it's not documented in official data sets, it exists. It spatial injustice. So how can we apply a i to this problem? From her home base in johannesburg, riseja is using satellite imagery and a i to identify wealthy and less wealthy neighborhoods. This creates useful data about the disparity of resources, data that can be used to advocate for change. Because usually in south africa, the injustice gets glossed over through zoning categories. For example, both tambeza and its wealthy suburban neighbor are called formal residential areas in the eyes of the government, despite the huge difference.

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