Accumulation - Nicole Starosielski and Iago Bojczuk - Southern Imaginaries of Digital Infrastructures

Southern Imaginaries of Digital Infrastructures

Nicole Starosielski and Iago Bojczuk

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Geographic map of cloud servers, December 30, 2022. Source: Data Center Map's Cloud Infrastructure Map.

Accumulation
December 2023










Notes
1

Data Center Dynamics, “Peder Nærbø talks Nordic investment in infrastructure," YouTube, 2019. See .

2

Bulk Infrastructure, “The Lowest C02 Emissions on the Planet,” YouTube, 2022. See .

3

Paola Ricaurte, “Data epistemologies, the coloniality of power, and resistance,” Television & New Media 20, no. 4 (2019): 350-365. See, for instance, Marcela Suárez Estrada and Sebastián Lehuedé's special issue devoted to the politics of data in Latin America. “What we call the Terrestrial Internet is emerging from Indigenous, Afrodescendant, feminist and worker groups in Abya Yala (Latin America) envisioning alternative imaginaries as digital infrastructures expand in their contexts.” Marcela Suárez Estrada and Sebastián Lehuedé, “Towards a Terrestrial Internet: re-imagining digital networks from the ground up,” Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society 5, no. 1 (2022), 1.

4

Milton Santos, Por Uma Outra Globalização: do Pensamento Único ao Pensamento Universal (Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2001), 38.

5

rczrcmps, "entgnlndpnts," Vimeo, 2017. See .

6

Ruy Cézar Campos Figueiredo, “Um Porto Invisível,” 2016. See .

7

Ruy Cézar Campos Figueiredo, “Pontos Terminais Emaranhados: uma narrativa nodal sobre cabos submarinos no Atlântico Sul,” 32o Encontro Anual da Compós, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo-SP, 2023.