Technologies of Colonialism and Solidarity
With Svitlana Matviyenko and Mariia Shynkarenko
Conference
IWM Vienna
Digital Democracies Institute
Plotting Institute
28
—
29 April, 2025
This
conference aims to critically position Russian colonialism not as an
isolated phenomenon but as an integral part of the international project
of colonial expansion, which encompasses both collaboration and
competition between Western and non-Western empires. Encompassing the
intersections of colonial warfare, resource extraction, surveillance,
occupation, and other colonial technologies, our collaborative
initiative aims at thinking with multiple histories and presents of
decolonial resistance.
Consisting of three panels – technologies of occupation, technologies
of persistence and technologies of implication –, the conference brings
together researchers, artists and activists to analyse ways and methods
of colonial violence and develop methods of translocal
solidarity.
Colonial Technologies, Infrastructures, Solidarity