David Chai
Philosophy Major @ Claremont McKenna College
- Role
- Humanities Lab Spectacle and Silence Fellow at Gould Center For Humanistic Studies
- Location
- Claremont, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About David Chai
I’m a freshman at Claremont McKenna College, studying Economics and Philosophy as a…
Experience
Humanities Lab Spectacle and Silence Fellow
Gould Center For Humanistic Studies
Sep 2025 — Present · Claremont, CA, US
This year’s lab explores the ethical complexities of documenting, preserving, and engaging with human suffering and atrocity, particularly in the digital age. On the one hand, we have a moral responsibility to preserve a record of atrocity, but in so doing, we risk becoming tourists of tragedy, drawn in by its voyeuristic allure. Students will explore issues such as the hidden labor of content moderators, who bear the psychological toll of filtering harmful content, and question the fairness of this distribution of moral injury. Students will also explore the challenges of digital preservation, collective memory, and the manipulation of visual evidence in an era of deepfakes and algorithmic curation. How can we ethically record suffering, navigate our obligations to remember or forget, and avoid desensitization or exploitation?
Education
Claremont McKenna College
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics & Philosophy
The Stony Brook School
High School Diploma, High Honors
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