[-empyre-] on the marks of my body -el fetiche de la tecnología

[Joeser Alvarez <magogh@yahoo.com.br>]

a mí me gustaria creier, que comumente en realidad,lo
que hay es un fetiche con la palabra "tecnología",
puesto que sea empleada masivamente en referencia al
digital, se no, lo que habría de ser de la
civilización como la conocemos, sin el papel central
de la escrita,encuanto tecnología?


> very simple way to think about technology, we always
> understand  it
> linked to the average consensus of what it is,
> guided by the market as
> you know, "tech is computers, is mobil phones, is
> electricity" etc ...
> 
> - but tech is much more, is also the tools to
> explore oil fields, to
> create submarines, to design weapons, to do spacial
> research, the 
> exploitation of biotech, the creation of
> telecommunication devices,
> the increasing of the logic and computing research,
> etc ...
> 
>  - every of this points have crucial implications
> for our present and
> future - but specially for our mind ecology and
> daily life ... the
> challenge is strong in every place around the globe,
> but for us,
> living in countries with such complex and urgent
> problems ... we are
> exhausted.
> 
> - well, but not all is so dark, the initiatives like
>  Arte Nuevo
> InteractivA 05,  among others, are spaces to think
> and to act in this
> complex scenario ... I hope the event will be a
> creative and strong
> door to continue the reflection of our condition.
> 
> - all the best 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> andres_burbano
> http://atari.uniandes.edu.co/burbano/
> http://basic-research.zkm.de
> 
> |||
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/21/05, Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet
> <rfbalanquet@cartodigital.org> wrote:
> > Amigos members of the Forum, McKenzie;,
> > 
> > In the last post, I forgot to mention that the
> Columbian artist 
> > Andres Burbano is also part of Arte Nuevo
> InteractivA 05 and I would 
> > like to thank him for his great input, solidarity
> and energy.
> > 
> > It is true that new media technologies are
> interested in people. The 
> > sophistication of the mobile technology has become
> the most 
> > irreverent interruption of the private space, the
> closer 
> > contamination tank, as well as the most
> sophisticated surveillance 
> > apparatus hooked to the big brother colonial
> matrix.
> > 
> > We also have to understand that views of the world
> and power does 
> > varies from geo-historical postionalities, and
> that a lot of us do 
> > not believe in the so called centrality of
> universal or imperialistic 
> > power. Therefore, even though the power of
> biotechnology invades our 
> > territories in search of the genetic codes of the
> plants, there are 
> > places where they will never enter. We are not
> that stupid to give 
> > out every thing© and if the one with money comes
> along and want to 
> > pay, I assure you that we may take the money
> knowing that the 
> > "foreign" doesn't not the complexities of our
> cultural territories or 
> > our languages and for sure, we will trick the
> power. Resistance is 
> > always with us, so is the understanding that the
> center of that 
> > colonial power is not our center, therefore our
> existence doesn't 
> > depend on that power and that knowing resides on
> our tribal memory 
> > where no machine has access.
> > 
> > It is true that Marx mentioned the slave when he
> wrote about the way 
> > in which the capitalist system tricked the people
> into believing that 
> > "freeing the slave" was a charitable gesture and
> explained how they 
> > became the paid worker of the capitalist world.
> But, from my 
> > subjective historical view I see an erasure of the
> problematic of the 
> > slave in Marx's Capital pointing out to slavery as
> something of the 
> > past. A deeper analysis of the slave's condition
> would have brought 
> > to the surface how most of the colonial
> independence wars, except the 
> > one taking place in Haiti, were conducted by the
> national bourgeois 
> > who at that time were brainwashed by the ideology
> of the industrial 
> > revolution.
> > 
> > A deeper analysis of the condition of women would
> have shown how the 
> > state and the church, understanding the amount of
> labor needed for 
> > the "industrial progress", made a pact to frame
> the women "as the 
> > makers of children who later become the workers"
> so there we have the 
> > roots of the violation of reproductive rights,
> over population, 
> > famine and the destruction of the forest in favor
> of the urban space.
> > 
> > Perhaps I asked too much from Marx, but the
> complexity of my 
> > upbringing in Cuba, having his ideology hammering
> my head and not 
> > satisfying the hunger I felt, forced me to
> question his ideology in 
> > the historical context of my territories.
> > 
> > 
> > If it were not for the slave narratives, most
> written in one person, 
> > I would have lived in the Marxist erasure and be
> co-opted by an a 
> > lefty ideology that was, outside its national
> discourse, perpetuating 
> > racialization, sexism, homophobia and spiritual
> segregation in the 
> > name of equality.
> > 
> > No matter how I am attracted to technology and new
> media, I am rooted 
> > on a network of interaction that is older than the
> industrial 
> > revolution, older than the slave trade and the
> European invasion. 
> > That network encompass a system of knowledge, data
> knowledge as we 
> > may called that can not be storage on the
> information networks 
> > operate by that " colonial power", therefore, I ,
> as a son of Yemaya, 
> > of Shango, of the trickster Elegba who at each
> intersection opens a 
> > new road to decenter from oppression,  el ahijado
> de Kukulkan, dragón 
> > que ilumina los cielos, as the bilingual person
> who transgress 
> > linguistic codes y escribe en la lengua impuesta
> por los 
> > colonizadores de Castilla y eclesiáticos que
> intentaron eliminar con 
> > castigo brutales el conocimiento de los
> probladores de mis 
> > territories, yo I --the subject who is not
> colonized by the 
> > ideologies of written words that are never sacred,
> but are the 
> > entrance to inquiry and growth--, understand that
> mediate technology 
> > can not overpower my connection to the universe,
> the truly cosmic 
> > energy fueling the transformation of everyday life
> and I am not 
> > alone, there are many, many more of us for whom
> technology will never 
> > be central.
> > 
> > Saludotes
> > -- 
> > Raúl Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet MFA
> > Curador Ejecutivo/ Arte Nuevo InteractivA
> > http://www.cartodigital.org/interactiva
> > interactiva@cartodigital.org
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