Édouard Glissant, the grapevine, and the ocean, Nelly Pinkrah @ A Is For Another Spring Sessions '21
Channel: EmG
Date: 2021-06-28

Nelly's coins the phrase  ‘technogenetic’ substances to refer to Édouard Glissant’s thinking and writing, to understand the disruptive histories of race, media (and) technology that inform contemporary life. In this talk she sets the scene by taking us to the secret communication networks of the Haitian Revolution that are expressed, and embodied even, in the title of Julius Scott’s brilliant book »The Common Wind« (2018). In the imperialists’ communications control this common wind caused a disruption, and by means of Glissantian terms she show how to rethink histories of media (and) technology, and thus contemporary imaginaries of what it means to relate, and form a commons. This work attempts to diffract the histories that underlie media technologies such as AI and how we believe they narrate stories about us. More at https://aisforanother.net