Modulating Matters of Computation, Modelling and Hyper-Separations
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Miyazaki, Shintaro
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15.09.2021
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We engage in a conversation with critical ecofeminism, which proposes to transform the colonialism-racism-capitalism-patriarchalism induced environmental crisis by a non-essentialist countering of oppressions and hyper-separations produced by human/nature dualism. We modulate the critical ecofeminist approach by countering a similar dualism, namely that of nature/technology. Furthermore, our theoretical balance-act has a praxis-oriented side: we believe that computation can be included in ecofeminist action. By providing alternative forms of engagement to instrumentalization, we trace pathways to different futures, countering the binary narratives of technology but also its moralizing of socio-cultural mediation. We take an intersectional approach to outcomes of computational modelling (simulations, visualisations, forecasts) and discuss the ecofeminist method of synthesis as a way to include different perspectives into computational processes. We work with two ‘modulated models’ that pay attention to assumptions, observations and thinking about urban commoning initiatives, and amateur knowledge of radio telecommunications. We aspire to provoke discussions about different modes of inclusion in communities and archives that are centred on shared, environment-friendly, solidarity oriented life-style and mutual care. Our approach engages with feminist arguments and inquires into ways patriarchalism is embedded in our relationship to technoscience and engineering. We explore modes of resistance through proposing skilled and alternative uses of these techniques.
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commoning, computational modelling, eco-feminism, human/nature dualism, computation, modulating, technoscience, critical computation, sympoiesis
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Politics of the Machines. Rogue Research
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14.09.2021
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17.09.2021
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SAVIC, Selena und Shintaro MIYAZAKI, 2021. Modulating Matters of Computation, Modelling and Hyper-Separations. Politics of the Machines. Rogue Research. 15 September 2021. Verfügbar unter: https://irf.fhnw.ch/handle/11654/33190