ABSTRACT Online scambaiting problematises the identity of the 419 scammer whose virtual labours connect significantly to the digital dimensions of Afropolitanism. When examined through the photographic practices demanded of 419 scammers in several Internet communities, scambaiting, a form of Internet vigilantism that is targeted at online scammers to avert scam, produces epistemic violence which evacuates the black male body of human dignity. Although scambaiting is potentially an ethical project, it embeds a system of oppression that generates Afropolitan masculinities, caricatured performances of the bodies of 419 scammers exhibited online as objects of shame. As a philosophical and aesthetic response to translocality and mobility, Afropolitanism stresses the cultural experiences and agency of ordinary Africans who assert a global sense of awareness. As both the Afropolitan subject and the 419 scammer are entangled in the assertion of agency, the globalism of both is shown to converge at the intersection of the digital. Building on Lisa Nakamura's essay on dogshaming, I argue that the sexual exploitation of black bodies on scambaiting websites gestures at technology's complicity in interpellating digital subjects and circulating social injustices. Unlike Nakamura, I foreground the performative aspects of scambaiting and connect these to Afropolitanism's intrinsic digitality.

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反非种族道德与在线游击行为政治

摘要在线搜查使419骗子的身份出现问题，该骗子的虚拟劳动与非洲黑人主义的数字维度密切相关。通过对几个互联网社区中419位诈骗者的摄影实践进行调查，发现以互联网警惕为目标的在线诈骗行为以网络诈骗者为中心，以防止发生诈骗，这产生了认知暴力，这种暴力逃避了黑人男性的尊严。尽管sc窃可能是一个道德项目，但它嵌入了一种压迫系统，这种压迫系统会产生非洲裔男子气概，这是网上羞辱的419名骗子尸体的讽刺作品。作为对跨地域性和流动性的哲学和美学回应，非洲人主义强调维护全球意识的普通非洲人的文化经验和代理。由于非裔人士和419骗子都纠缠在代理权的主张中，因此两者的全球化都在数字化的交汇处汇聚。我基于中村丽莎（Lisa Nakamura）关于狗狗叫卖的文章，我认为，在sc亵网站上对黑体的性剥削表明技术在串扰数字主体和传播社会不公正方面的同谋。与中村不同，我着眼于进行刺杀的表演方面，并将其与非洲都市主义的内在数字化联系起来。我基于中村丽莎（Lisa Nakamura）关于狗狗叫卖的文章，我认为，在sc亵网站上对黑体的性剥削表明技术在串扰数字主体和传播社会不公正方面的同谋。与中村不同，我着眼于进行刺杀的表演方面，并将其与非洲都市主义的内在数字性联系起来。我基于中村丽莎（Lisa Nakamura）关于狗狗叫卖的文章，我认为，在sc亵网站上对黑体的性剥削表明技术在串扰数字主体和传播社会不公正方面的同谋。与中村不同，我着眼于进行刺杀的表演方面，并将其与非洲都市主义的内在数字化联系起来。