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As someone exploring queer understandings of more-than-human kinship, I found your text deeply resonant with my own interests. This passage, in particular, struck me as incredibly powerful: "In relation to bodies, transness—with its infiniteness, messiness, and mutability—works against the operational principle of algorithms and their binary definiteness, fixedness, and immutability, which renders trans people either hypervisible as a deviance or invisible and erased."

Building on Susan Schuppli's notion of Material Witness, I am curious about how we might resituate and decode this "partial" witnessing by algorithms and surveillance cameras. Instead of framing these technologies as simply failing to capture trans identities, how might we interpret this act of failure—and the inherent partiality it reveals—as central to our witnessing? Could this shift illuminate a way to bear witness to a heterogeneous, binary-constructed world that underpins contemporary society? In doing so, the traditional subject/object dynamic of "witnessing" could be subverted in various ways.

Looking forward to continuing this conversation soon!