Silicon Valley: The Seduction of Racial & Surveillance Capitalism

During this public program, Menchaca will lecture on his research for his National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Fund for the Arts grant project, The Codex Silex Vallis (The Silicon Valley Codex). Topics explored include how Silicon Valley tech giants have impacts the social fabric of Latinx families in the United States and how Silicon Valley corporations utilize Surveillance Capitalism and Radical Capitalism to monopolize human behavior in the 21st century.