Knowledge and the Digital Turn: Visual Manifestations of the Other in the Global South
| Autor: | Wagner, Christiane |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.7065581 |
| Popis: | Despite emphasizing a technological future involving many imaginations about a smart city, individuals still struggle for basic needs due to the different economic conditions between classes and between technologically developing and developed societies. One of the main needs is the right to education. The media, social networks, and everything converge in a global metropolis’s reality, and visual manifestations emerge from the virtual space and expand to the physical urban environment, vice-versa, as evidenced with the Occupy and Indignados movements. Knowledge has been growing regarding general and particular cases through representations and applications of the complexity of social and natural phenomena, causing the integration of new theories. Thus, the formation of Western knowledge as a continuous process of conceptual syntheses to understand reality is no longer applicable. Consequently, questions emerge, such as: How is the world moving forward, and how can humanities and social science better understand their reality through comparison with postcolonial theories? Technicization and aestheticization of social and urban structures are supposed to offer non-fundamental solutions. Instead, they are dissuading the existence of cultural differences. Regarding this hypothesis, this paper aims to clarify technological development and considerations of the aesthetic aspects of expanding the public space, involving urban visual configurations, with a case study of São Paulo City as evidence of the fourth industrial revolution. The postcolonial approach consists of all knowledge, including aesthetics, cultural diversity, and the recognition of Otherness in various art and media forms in order to discuss the city’s future regarding digital literacy. Presentation at the IVSA 2022 Annual Conference on Expanding the Visual Field: New Developments in Scholarship, Arts and Activism, Gather Town, September 15-18. |
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