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A conversation with author Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil on how our thinking shapes the technologies we create.
Public narratives about technologies have generally a very specific idea in mind: machines of steel running complex software, so called artificial intelligence, or digital technologies integrated in our cars, cell phones, medical machines and fridges. Technologies that solve problems by optimizing processes. Technologies that are created for the sake of economic development and growth.
In this understanding of technology, nature becomes a problem that needs optimization – and people mere users. Nature becomes a disposable good that is collapsing in pandemics, resource scarcity, floods and deforestation. Peoples are organized and managed through the uncaring efficiency logics of software.
In this session Yásnaya Aguilar will invite us to broaden our understanding of technology and talk about ways of thinking and making technology beyond capitalism. Yásnaya will introduce us to her concept of Tequiology. Tequiology stems from tequio, a word of Nahuatl origin. It is a social technology and a mode of organization informed by the history of technologies with which first peoples resist oppression, care for the community and protect nature.
The complete program of the conference: https://www.kampnagel.de/en/program/sf22-konferenz-teil-2/