Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Wendy Chun’s work treats software, race, and habit as co-constituted: code becomes infrastructure when it becomes habitual, and networks reproduce existing categories under the appearance of personalization.

¶Core ideas

• Software as ideology: code naturalizes and hides the politics of its design
• Habitual new media: novelty depends on repetition; networks work by making us repeat
• Discriminating data: machine learning rediscovers race and gender even when told not to

¶Key works

• Programmed Visions (2011)
• Updating to Remain the Same (2016)
• Discriminating Data (2021)