Tag: Bureau of Race Neutrality

fugitive frequency, season 6 episode 1: Bureau of Race Neutrality Berlin does NotebookLM

NotebookLM: The German Colonial Legacy adn Systemic Racial Capitalism from 49 sources.

This podcast is an experiment with NotebookLM, Google’s “AI-powered research partner”. The platform allows users to upload research materials such as PDFs, websites, YouTube videos, audio files, Google Docs and Google Slides and also performs searches on research topics. It then summarises this material using Google’s advanced multimodal AI systems and its Gemini AI assistant. It delivers its findings in novel ways that are not limited to text, including video, slide shows and an “Audio Overview” function. An affiliated project, Bureau of Race Neutrality, took it for a test drive through the topics of racism and racial capitalism in Germany using sources that included:

Cedric J. Robinson, 2000. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill (first published 1983).
Cedric J. Robinson, 2016. The Terms of Order: Political Science and the Myth of Leadership, The University of North Caroline Press, Chapel Hill (first published 1980).
Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin (eds) 2017. Futures of Black Radicalism, Verso, London & New York.
CLAIM, 2025. “Report on anti-Muslim Racism”, CLAIM gGmbH, Berlin.
Laila Abdul-Rahman, Hannah Espín Grau, Luise Klaus, Tobias Singelnstein, 2023. Gewalt im Amt: Übermäßige polizeiliche Gewaltanwendung und ihre Aufarbeitung (Police Use of Excessive Force in Germany), Forschungsprojekt KviAPol.

Generated text summaries are:

“Briefing Document: An Analysis of Racism, Discrimination, and State Violence in Germany” [PDF]
“Synthesis of Racial Capitalism, Black Radicalism, and the Critique of Western Order” [PDF]

This episode also include excerpts from the Bureau of Race Neutrality Berlin’s recently published sound piece, Antifascist Noise (2025) [Bandcamp].

You might have noticed that the last section uses a different voice? NotebookLM has limited features for non-subscription accounts, so the final chat summary used an AI generated text-to-speech voice from elevenlabs , named “Rachel”.

fugitive frequency, season 5 episode 10: Wahid Al Mamun & Bureau of Race Neutrality Singapore

What God Took Your Legs Away

This month’s episode is a recording of a sound and spoken word performance by Singaporean poet Wahid Al Mamun [Instagram] and the Bureau of Race Neutrality Singapore [Bandcamp] at Sing Lit Station, 5 August 2025. It occurred soon after the launch of Wahid’s first book of poetry, What God Took Your Legs Away (2025) on AFTERIMAGE press. The improvised pieces documented in this recording recall the so-called “Little India Riots”, 8 December 2013. Sparked by a fatal accident at a bus terminal the unrest implicated numerous migrant workers. One cosequence was the building of a special bus terminal for migrant workers, which many argue is an example of hostile architecture. The performance is followed by a Q&A, and a montage of recordings made in the streets of Little India round off this podcast.

Bureau of Race Neutrality Singapore: “Migrant Labour/Migrant Leisure”

Bureau of Race Neutrality Singapore, “Migrant Labour/Migrant Leisure” cassette release.

Two 30 minute tape pieces by the Bureau of Race Neutrality Singapore on a C-60 ferric cassette with UV printed case in Singapore national colours. Mastered at Analogcut Berlin. Comes with pamphlet. Limited to 50. More info + digital downloads on Bandcamp. Proceeds go to Migrant Mutual Aid Singapore or donate direct, lah.