Posts by jine@todon.nl
(DIR) Post #9mxUjFZNKvqEkOjEOW by jine@todon.nl
2019-09-15T20:16:02Z
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#IAA When cars appeared in public spaces at the turn of the 20th century, mainly for the enjoyment of a privileged class, they faced a lot of protest. Wire ropes were pulled across the road, barricades of trees and rubble were built und nails or broken glass were spread. Children and teens in rural areas often threw stones towards passing cars.Doctoral thesis on anti-automotive protest forms in Germany in the years 1902-1932: Uwe Fraunholz, Motorphobia. Anti-automobiler Protest in Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik, 2002 → https://digi20.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb00046090_00002.html
(DIR) Post #9mxUjFsAD4s1gfWEgC by jine@todon.nl
2019-09-15T20:20:51Z
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The attacks also appeared in advertisements for tyres. “Metzeler’s pneumatics are indestructible.” – Source: Allgemeine Automobil-Zeitung, 1905 (via Fraunholz)
(DIR) Post #9vlyeMVWGxHPaacW0m by jine@todon.nl
2020-06-05T11:26:52Z
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Some Black Femme Identifying Artists on #Bandcamp• Angel Bat Dawid (Jazz) https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/transition-east• Anz (House, Garage, Electro) https://anzdj.bandcamp.com/album/invitation-2-dance• Crystallmess (Techno, Ambient, Transe) https://crystallmess.bandcamp.com• JoAnn McNeil (Experimental, Sound Art, Improvisation) https://joannmcneil.bandcamp.com/• Nicole M Mitchell (Jazz, Experimental) https://nicolemitchell.bandcamp.com/album/mandorla-awakening-ii-emerging-worlds• rRoxymore (Electronic, Techno) https://rroxymore.bandcamp.com/• Yazzus (Ghettotech, Footwork, Jungle) https://yazzus.bandcamp.com/album/its-ya-girls-bootlegsFull spreadsheet of Black Femme Identifying Electronic DJs/Producers/Artists: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z2u8I5XXYZopIDdBj1maSeMXvbcLtkNcmpUyADFhdVk/edit#gid=01000+ Black Producers/Artists/Labels: http://blackbandcamp.info
(DIR) Post #9wCPYuaEe0rv4cUYiW by jine@todon.nl
2020-06-17T12:38:34Z
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It is crucial to understand and make people understand that technology is a social relationship and not just an application of physical-mathematical principles.It is contradictory when some tech-bros argue that terms in a programming language should not be changed because the language is not ‘human‘. It is because of its artificiality that changes won’t throw the whole thing over the top and everything will still function.The request to change terms because of their connotations alone is too much ‘human’ huh?
(DIR) Post #9wCPZ8kfxzXT13U5w0 by jine@todon.nl
2020-06-17T13:06:17Z
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The prevalent culture of technology is driven by the idea of control and domination. Sold as ‘efficiency’ and marketed as making the world a better place. Which world? Whose world?In the nineteenth century a machine was defined as a combination of bodies so arranged that “by their means the mechanical forces of nature can be compelled to do work” (Franz Reuleaux). https://archive.org/details/kinematicsmachi00kenngoogThis is the so-called modernity: A piece of technology works perfectly when it subjugates forces. It is still in the heads and also in the circuits.
(DIR) Post #9wCPZ998V36YEuvd3o by jine@todon.nl
2020-06-17T13:26:59Z
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Ubiquitous Computing and Physical Computing, everything wearable, tangible, kinesthetic etc. invokes an abstract body that is de-raced, rendered race-less. Working with the idea of an universal body in tech is grounded in its white eurocentric history. Also Ubiquitous Computing can be considered as an imperialistic endeavor. The global Internet of Things sits on a prior network of things, ”the international network of land, resources, and enslaved humans as objects […] situated in a colonized periphery constituted by colonizing human subjects situated in ‘the core.’”See Syed Mustafa Ali’s Introduction to Decolonial Computing https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2930886
(DIR) Post #9wCPZ9PRWQ9H3UYeTg by jine@todon.nl
2020-06-17T13:44:56Z
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There is so much work to be done. It is not just about ethics in tech. Is is about a whole mindset and a history of thought. It starts with the question what we understand as a technical invention.The tech-bros who insist that a programming language is not ‘human’ to defend it against marginalized voices have to go! Jeff Bezos has to go! Decolonize technology!
(DIR) Post #9wCPZBCOrsu6bcTGQS by jine@todon.nl
2020-06-17T13:59:45Z
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Dismantle the whole idea of “high tech”. Why isn’t a sewing machine considered as high tech? How many tech-bros are able to handle a sewing machine? How many woman were and are fabricating protective masks for the pandemic by operating a sewing machine? How many provide clothes for the whole planet since centuries? Not only the work is undervalued but also their technical skills.
(DIR) Post #9wFMTGt9hlA9k0uC4O by jine@todon.nl
2020-06-19T15:00:20Z
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blackbandcamp.info https://blackbandcamp.info Some Experimental Electronic & Techno• Niecy Blues – CRY https://niecyblues.bandcamp.com/track/keep-goin-black-girl-ur-not-far• Abençoada – ...roaming https://abenxoada.bandcamp.com/• Afrodeutsche – RR001 https://afrodeutsche.bandcamp.com/• Jessicunt – MANICPANIC – Makes visual art, too! https://chiamaka.studio/ • https://jessicunt.bandcamp.com/release