Weaving memory into infrastructure
and space
The 8M Atlas by Geochicas as a transregional feminist archive
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Technology as a tool and process of networks and experiences that emerge from the very appropriations and their uses, understood as cultural practices in community.
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"...maps represent the world through an ideological filter, they are loaded with internal tensions, they constitute classic examples of the relationship between power and knowledge, and they are always inscribed in broader political contexts."
J. B. Harley (1990)
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Data are constructions that must be understood from different instances:
from the subjectivity of those who produce them
from an ethical perspective towards those affected by such production
from their openness and standardization to the ontological and semantic processes for their interpretations
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Variable |
Composition |
Geographic data
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Specific representations of space |
The map
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Series of agreements for the interpretation of space |
The process |
Dialogue on what we understand as spatiality and how it should be represented and interpreted |
Space and community |
Dialogues of knowledge and experiences lived in space |
THE GEOCHICAS 8M ATLAS
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Tells other stories
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Weaves networks
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Plots collective plans
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Better weaving the conditions under which they remain open, and doing so from a technopolitical imagination that does not accept the false alternative between docile transparency and defensive withdrawal, but rather claims for feminist archives a relational sovereignty in accordance with the very fabric that sustains them.
thank you!
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Mapping and memory
By Selene Yang
