Abstract

TULLIO, Martina Di. LO TECNOLÓGICO ES POLÍTICO. REFLEXIONES SOBRE LAS LÓGICAS COLONIALISTAS DE LOS MEDIOS DIGITALES. Comechingonia [online]. 2023, vol.27, n.3, pp.3-3. ISSN 1851-0027.

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 through a bibliographical analysis from a decolonial perspective, and to propose instead a view that recognises the influence of the contexts of production and use upon the characteristics of technologies and their effects. These theoretical developments on materiality, far from being narrowed to the work with objects from archaeological contexts, can also be applied to the study of contemporary digital technologies, expanding the scope of the disciplinary debates. Therefore, I propose a series of attributes of the material aspects of digital media that derive from the logics and meanings of modern Western cosmology, highlighting their eminently political nature. Thus, the expansion of these technologies in the Global South in the last decades can be understood as part of contemporary coloniality. This theoretical proposal will be applied in the future to the analysis of the impacts of digital media insertion in new contexts.

Keywords : technology colonialism; material culture digital media ontological turn.

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