The Geography Speaker Series presents Dillon Mahmoudi, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Talk Title: From Code to Concrete: Software, Fixed Capital, and the Re-making of the City
Abstract: This talk treats software as fixed capital that organizes labor, encodes social difference, and reshapes urban space. Through the four components that comprise a “means of computation” framework—abstraction, automation, accumulation, and assimilation—it connects critical theories of digital capitalism to an autoethnographic data-walk. The talk traces an urban-tech feedback loop in which platform firms remake neighborhoods as data-generating infrastructures, raising questions about how software-driven redevelopment intensifies urban inequality and racialized surveillance without resolving it.
