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Digital Extractivism

Cartographies of the Detour

What does it mean to imagine from the margins? *Cartographies of the Detour* is a series of brief but meaningful interviews that seek to balance critical depth with humanity, from a perspective rooted in the Global South and for the Global South. In this conversation with Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz, we explore what it means to design tools that liberate rather than constrain: open technology that offers autonomy in the face of l

Algorithmic Elections

-By Javier Wong Q.- Social media is the most widely used medium in Latin America for staying informed about politics. In the pursuit of likes and views, the dangers of false and misleading narratives loom over voters. Emotion goes viral, metrics rule, and algorithms are the minefield through which voters navigate. Who has the vote d

Technology Without Universals:

The Commitment to Cosmotecnics -By Óscar Bodí Pons- When we talk about artificial intelligence, we tend to do so in the singular: AI, the future, progress. That apparent neutrality of the definite article, however, conceals a philosophical and political operation of enormous scope. Hong Kong-based philosopher Yuk Hui has been analyzing this logic for years, and his assessment is very clear: technology

If it's free, you're the product

-By Elsie Ralston- From Television to the Algorithm Long before the “Like” button, before infinite scrolling, and before Silicon Valley turned the word “engagement” into a metric of power, American artist Richard Serra formulated an equation that has taken on absolute relevance in the digital age. In 1973, together with Carlota Fay Schoolman, he presented the video essay *Television Delive*

Beyond the Algorithm: Resistance and Digital Sovereignty in the Global South

Algorithms are not neutral. They have an accent, a genealogy, and a colonial memory. In the Global South, where technology often arrives packaged as an inevitable fate, resistance begins by dismantling its promises and reclaiming its infrastructure.

Reclaiming the Internet: Toward a Post-Naive, Pluriversal Web

From the narrative of inevitability to the collective construction of human infrastructure.

“AI Artists”: Between Plagiarism and Art Direction

By Cristian Situ Generative artificial intelligence has burst onto the scene as a cultural revolution unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. Tools such as Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Nano Banana, and others can generate in seconds images that once required years of artistic practice. On social media, users who bring these images to life through prompts already refer to themselves as—or are celebrated as—:

Rewriting the Future of AI 2027: Where Does Latin America Stand?

Cartographies of the Detour: Eduardo Marisca, from the South

"Cartographies of the Detour" could have been a Victorian game coined by Proust, but we will instead present it as a series of brief yet meaningful interviews that seek to balance critical acuity with human depth, always from—and for—the South.

Should we use ChatGPT in the Global South?

On the Feedback of Implicit Biases in Generative AI on the Identities of the Global South

Wild Machines

The myth of progress