Modulating matters of computation, modelling and hyper-separations
Datum
09.2021Metadata
Zur LanganzeigeType
04B - Beitrag Konferenzschrift
Herausgeber/Herausgeberin
Projekt
Zusammenfassung
We engage in a conversation with critical ecofeminism, which proposed to transform the colonialism-racism-capitalism-patriarchalism induced environmental crisis by 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 inquiries into ways patriarchalism is embedded in our relationship to technoscience and engineering. We explore modes of resistance by proposing skilled and alternative uses of these techniques.
DOI der Originalausgabe
https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/POM2021.8Übergeordnetes Werk
Proceedings of Politics of the machines - Rogue Research 2021
Seiten
63-68
Verlag / Hrsg. Institution
Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
Verlagsort / Veranstaltungsort
Berlin
Veranstaltung
POM 2021;
2021-09-14;
2021-09-17
2021-09-14;
2021-09-17