WHAP! Lecture Series 

The City of West Hollywood and CalArts present the West Hollywood Aesthetics and Politics Series “Black Out,” on the Surveillance of Blackness.

Brian Jordan Jefferson, ‘Information Capitalism Meets Racial Capitalism: Surveillance and Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age’ 

Illinois professor Brian Jordan Jefferson will be speaking on, “Information Capitalism Meets Racial Capitalism: Surveillance and Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age.” With him as a respondent will be a member of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition.

Friday, December 4, 2020 | 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM PST 

Watch on YouTube: tiny.cc/2020whap

Brian Jordan Jefferson is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois. Jefferson’s work explores digital technology, racial capitalism, and the State in urban contexts. His publications include the recent book Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age (Minnesota, 2020) which looks at the application of digital technology in criminal justice in New York City and Chicago.