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# Decolonizing Technologies
To take as a starting point the assumption that colonialism has invaded and embedded the digital realm and our technologies in general. Jodi Dean calls part of this process “communicative capitalism”. Ulises Mejias warns us how the network broadens participation yet also exacerbates disparity, increasing exclusion rather than inclusion. Nicole Starosielski talks about the inherent and continuous colonial relationships embedded in the undersea cables. Meanwhile, we are reminded of the materiality of technologies in Parks and Starosielski’s work Signal Traffic.
To take as a starting point the assumption that colonialism has invaded and embedded the digital realm and our technologies in general. Jodi Dean calls part of this process “communicative capitalism”[^1]. Ulises Mejias warns us how the network broadens participation yet also exacerbates disparity, increasing exclusion rather than inclusion[^2]. Nicole Starosielski talks about the inherent and continuous colonial relationships embedded in the undersea cables[^3]. Meanwhile, we are reminded of the materiality of technologies in Parks and Starosielski’s work Signal Traffic[^4].
How then can we imagine the decolonization of technologies and of cyberspace? What would such processes, epistemologies, and practices entail? How can feminist anti-colonial, post-colonial, and/or indigenous frameworks shape and strengthen our analysis in our collective reflection on such questions? At the methodological level, can radical speculative fiction or storytelling a la Octavia’s Brood (2015) help us produce our vision(s) of decolonized technologies? In this stream we will explore the intricacies of colonial technologies while at the same time trying to conceive what decolonial technologies mean.
How then can we imagine the decolonization of technologies and of cyberspace? What would such processes, epistemologies, and practices entail? How can feminist anti-colonial, post-colonial, and/or indigenous frameworks shape and strengthen our analysis in our collective reflection on such questions? At the methodological level, can radical speculative fiction or storytelling a la Octavia’s Brood (2015)[^5] help us produce our vision(s) of decolonized technologies? In this stream we will explore the intricacies of colonial technologies while at the same time trying to conceive what decolonial technologies mean.
# Queer, Feminist and Anti-Racist Pedagogies
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- ![](session:onsurveillanceandbiodata)
- ![](session:ongenderessentialismandbiomedicalviolence)
# References
[^1]: ![](bib:44bd1a78-cf21-46f9-97a2-030834c328a4)
[^2]: ![](bib:1a42988e-8065-43c9-90c1-0aafb4cad245)
[^3]: ![](bib:4c6252d3-9b28-4b1e-afcc-54b5f2256258)
[^4]: ![](bib:818f4904-9773-4f72-9303-1a2d52bfe294)
[^5]: