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Patrick Brian Smith
@patrickbriansmith.bsky.social
Assistant Professor and University Fellow at the University of Salford
// media, forensics, human rights, law + doc/spatial/political theory // https://salford-repository.worktribe.com/person/2316413/patrick-brian-smith
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Sasha Crawford-Holland, @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social, and Andrew Williams look at open-source investigation and propose tactics to counter epistemic injustice aimed at fostering pluralistic, decentralised, and solidarity-based OSI practices.

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Law’s capture of human rights focused open-source investigation
Abstract. With new protocols emerging to regulate the field of open-source investigation, this article critiques their widespread deference to the requirem
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June 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
"Strategies of witnessing, speculating, and testifying through body and voice can stake out a political intervention... aesthetic counterforensics bypass metrics of truth-seeking that are indissociable from colonization and enslavement as they bear upon the present."
May 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"Strategies of witnessing, speculating, and testifying through body and voice can stake out a political intervention... aesthetic counterforensics bypass metrics of truth-seeking that are indissociable from colonization and enslavement as they bear upon the present."
May 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"How does catharsis—and our presumed right, or imperative, to attain it—operate in Western, neoliberal culture as an affective currency that connects our screens to our courts in the reproduction of a carceral common sense?"
May 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM