1. Tuesday, January 17, 2023, 1:00 pm: "Data Colonialism and Digital Border Walls"
Thinking through technology and how it surfaces as a colonial forces, especially since we have entered the fourth industrial revolution and post-Covid we are almost completely dependent on data.
The first part of this talk will focus on the concept of Data Colonialism, which explains the emergence of a new social order based not on the extraction of natural resources or labor, but on the appropriation of human life through data. This new type of colonialism is already resulting in a highly unequal social arrangement that is deeply incompatible with human freedom and autonomy, and resisting it will require strategies that decolonial thinking has foregrounded for centuries. The second part of the talk will examine the application of surveillance technologies along borders as instances of data colonialism, intended to control the movement of migrants and conduct a digital war against them.