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Author: marloes <marloes@kuri.mu>
Date: Fri Jun 17 20:04:10 +0200
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ First of all, it has allowed a broadening of what is commonly understood as tech
>"[...] technology is how a society copes with physical reality: how people get and keep and cook food, how they clothe themselves, what their power sources are Perhaps very ethereal people aren't interested in these mundane, bodily matters, but I'm fascinated by them, and I think most of my readers are too.
>Technology is the active human interface with the material world.
->But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural and human resources. [^urs]
+>But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural and human resources [^urs].
Judy Wacjman, back in the 90s, described this shift in the association of technology with so-called ‘high technology’. In Technofeminism, she writes how "male machines" replaced "female fabrics" and tech became more and more associated with masculinity, associated with industrial, governmental, and militaristic practices [^wacj]. This is something that is now more and more reconsidered, also from a decolonial perspective. Western high-tech is no longer seen as universal, beneficial to all.
