Book review: Technocolonialism by Mirca Madianou

Mirca Madianou’s Technocolonialism shows how six logics of digital humanitarianism – humanitarian accountability, audit, capitalism, technosolutionism, securitization and resistance – together combine to reproduce colonial practices of extraction, paternalisation, marginalisation and disempowerment through digital solutions.

Using examples from fieldwork in multiple geographies, Madianou first provides a brief history lesson on the logics of colonialism, demonstrating its far-reaching […]

https://blog.kathyreid.id.au/2025/06/25/book-review-technocolonialism-by-mirca-madianou/

Our #STS #Bochum conference is over. The experimental case format has been a success with overwhelming enthusiasm, standing before ruins proved to be an insightful lens; but my body is also weak and tired. Happy Weekend. 🧘

https://stsing.org/before-ruins/

Le Retour du Roi ! Slay the Spire 2 enfin dispo, on découvre ça en direct !

https://yt.lostpod.space/w/oFxpFtVWvReczLq8ku1Jh8

Brilliant New Interfaces article by Arizona State University's Arthur Daemmrich & Smithsonian Institution's Eric Hintz "Sports in an Algorithmic Era. (a bases clearing, slam dunk, hole-in-one hat trick of insights!!)

#artificialintelligence #ai #datascience #sport #sports #baseball #basketball #tech #science #sts #sociology #anthropology #journalism #computerscience #history

We are about to start #BeforeRuins at Ruhr-University Bochum #RUB. Imagine a very excited team! And some Easter eggs. @rustlab

All the key programme info, including the venue location, to be found here:

https://stsing.org/before-ruins/programme

#STS #Anthropocene #Bochum

Join us! Please share, circulate

Goethe-Universität — Studying Science and Technology Studies at Frankfurt @KAEEGoetheUni – STS@GU https://tinygu.de/sts-ma

@sts #STS #ethnography #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies #StudySTS

On Wednesday, our #stsing conference in #Bochum starts. Final prep walk done. Standing #BeforeRuins. #sts

Check our lovely booklet here:
https://stsing.org/before-ruins/bl-content/uploads/before-ruins-booklet-digital.pdf