The Latin roots of the word reparations are “re” (again) plus “parere” which means “to give birth to, bring into being, produce”. Together they mean “to make generative once again”. In this sense, the extraction processes that cause labor injustice, ecological devastation, and social degradation cannot be repaired by simply transferring money. Reparations need to take on the full sense of “restorative”: the transition to a decolonial system that can support value generators in the control of their own systems of production, protect the value they create from extraction, and circulate value in unalienated forms that benefit the human and non-human communities that produced that value. With funding from the National Science Foundation, we have developed a research framework for this process that starts with “artisanal labor”: employee-owned business and worker collectives that have people doing what they love, despite low incomes. Focusing primarily on Detroit's Black-owned urban farms, artisanal textile businesses, Black hair salons, worker collectives, and other community-based production, with additional connections to Indigenous and other communities, we have introduced digital fabrication technologies, sensors, artificial intelligence, server-side apps and other computational support for a transition to unalienated circular value flow. We will report on our investigations with the challenges at multiple scales. At each level, we show how computational supports can act as restorative mechanisms for lost circular value flows, and thus address both past and ongoing disenfranchisement.

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作为生成正义的计算赔偿：非殖民化向非异化循环价值流的转变

赔偿一词的拉丁词根是“re”（再次）加上“parere”，意思是“诞生、产生、产生”。它们合在一起的意思是“再次产生创造力”。从这个意义上说，导致劳动不公正、生态破坏和社会退化的榨取过程不能通过简单地转移金钱来修复。赔偿需要完全意义上的“恢复性”：向非殖民体系的过渡，该体系可以支持价值创造者控制自己的生产系统，保护他们创造的价值不被榨取，并以有益于受益的非异化形式流通价值产生该价值的人类和非人类社区。在国家科学基金会的资助下，我们为这一过程开发了一个研究框架，从“手工劳动”开始：员工拥有的企业和工人集体，让人们做自己喜欢做的​​事情，尽管收入很低。我们主要关注底特律黑人拥有的城市农场、手工纺织企业、黑人美发沙龙、工人集体和其他社区生产，并与原住民和其他社区建立更多联系，引入了数字制造技术、传感器、人工智能、服务器- 端应用程序和其他计算支持，以实现向非异化循环价值流的过渡。我们将报告我们对多个层面的挑战的调查。在每个层面上，我们都展示了计算支持如何充当丢失的循环价值流的恢复机制，从而解决过去和现在的公民权被剥夺的问题。