The Technological is Political.: Reflections on the Colonialist Logics of Digital Media.
In the last decades, archaeological, anthropological and philosophical literature have engaged in intense debates regarding the concept of technology in the frame of the so-called “ontological turn” in human sciences. The dominant perspectives today vary from instrumentalist views, that assume the n...
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Centro de Estudios Históricos. UA CONICET
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/comechingonia/article/view/39946 |
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| Sumario: | In the last decades, archaeological, anthropological and philosophical literature have engaged in intense debates regarding the concept of technology in the frame of the so-called “ontological turn” in human sciences. The dominant perspectives today vary from instrumentalist views, that assume the neutrality of technology, and the radical approaches of symmetrical archaeology, that outline its active role. The aim of this work is to question both extremes from a decolonial point of view, and to propose instead a perspective that recognises the influence of the contexts of production and use upon the characteristics of technologies and their effects. Moreover, the particular case of digital media is analyzed, as bearers of logics and meanings from contemporary western cosmology that manifest in their material aspects. In this way, the political nature of new technologies is highlighted, as well as of discourses on them and the processes of their expansion in regions of the global South. It thus becomes relevant to study what happens in the practice of digital media insertion in specific contexts. |
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