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# 123
Colonial Infrastructures and Techno-social Networks
Tiziana Terranova and Ravi Sundaram
The techno-social is the form of the social that comes after its end. It is neither a virtual nor a global digital community, but a component of the milieu generated by a new technical being—the digital computational network. It was triggered not so much by social media, as first assumed, but by the turn whereby social computing no longer simply supported social interaction but started “to process the content generated by social interaction,” making its results “usable not just by users but by the digital systems that supported their activities” (Thomas Erickson).
e-flux Journal
Posted: December 15, 2021
Category
Technology, Nationalism, Surveillance & Privacy
Subjects
Postcolonialism, Social Media, Ultranationalism
# 64
Post-Postcolonial Sensory Infrastructure
Ravi Sundaram
More than a decade ago, Rem Koolhaas published his widely circulated essay “Fragments of a Lecture on Lagos” as part of a Documenta 11 platform in that city devoted to African urbanism. 1 Koolhaas went on to consider the status of Lagos, which seemed to have an aura of “apocalyptic violence” and of a “smoldering rubbish dump.” A series of further enquiries revealed new informal networks entering the interstices of older, decaying infrastructures. Finally, it was a crucial helicopter ride by…
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 1, 2015
Category
Urbanism, Architecture
Subjects
Postcolonial Theory, Infrastructure, State & Government, Media theory