Brainstorm #6
By: YuYu Madigan
Gonzales describes indigenous "technologies" as various rituals, celebrations, and practices in "Ceremony as Memory". They are practices that they were persecuted for by colonizers as they tried to gain control over the people and repress their ability to remember (p70). One primary example of of these sacred customs included birthing practices in which the braid and shawl were technologies in delivery. Other examples include through medicine and sacred/purification rites as highlighted on page 71. These were decribed and defined as technologies because of the implication and effect they had on a process and how they altered practices to come. This is linked too the Girl in a Coma reading and the Clumsy Sky video because both look towards the future and a more progressive society. They represent the ideas of covivencia because it's about the coexistence and living with each other in this very earth-centric song. They sing: "we are stars that light up the night" which brings it into this idea that we are all together and make the sky bright. Both texts stress the importance of remembrance and that these kind of technologies must be preserved. Twitter acts as an agency to maintain this knowledge and archive it for the future taking this idea of technology and combining with another form that we consider more commonly.
Gonzales describes indigenous "technologies" as various rituals, celebrations, and practices in "Ceremony as Memory". They are practices that they were persecuted for by colonizers as they tried to gain control over the people and repress their ability to remember (p70). One primary example of of these sacred customs included birthing practices in which the braid and shawl were technologies in delivery. Other examples include through medicine and sacred/purification rites as highlighted on page 71. These were decribed and defined as technologies because of the implication and effect they had on a process and how they altered practices to come. This is linked too the Girl in a Coma reading and the Clumsy Sky video because both look towards the future and a more progressive society. They represent the ideas of covivencia because it's about the coexistence and living with each other in this very earth-centric song. They sing: "we are stars that light up the night" which brings it into this idea that we are all together and make the sky bright. Both texts stress the importance of remembrance and that these kind of technologies must be preserved. Twitter acts as an agency to maintain this knowledge and archive it for the future taking this idea of technology and combining with another form that we consider more commonly.
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