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

 

 

        Specific representations of space

 

The map

 

 

        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

  • Tells other stories

  • Weaves networks

  • 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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