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Cell
for Digital Discomfort

digital researchers

Formed as part of the 2021/2022 BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice, the Cell for Digital Discomfort (CfDD)—composed of Cristina Cochior, Karl Moubarak, and Jara Rocha—collectively explore repoliticizations of compu-relational cultures of resistance.

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31/01/2023
Digital Discomfort

An Annotated Bibliography for Digital Discomfort

Cell for Digital Discomfort

This annotated bibliography has been put together by the Cell for Digital Discomfort (Cristina Cochior, Karl Moubarak, Jara Rocha). It gathers writings which both imagine and provide frameworks for new forms of sociotechnical implicancies and digital roughness, disobedience, friction and/or discomfort among them: a text by the oracle(s) group which calls for stochastic means of undoing the world’s systems of control; an essay from writer, journalist, and academic Syed Mustafa Ali which seeks a vocabulary to define decolonial computing; and, from sociologist and historian of technology Janet Vertesi, a call for a seamful response to glistening tech-cleanliness which makes clear the gritty overlaps of its infrastructures. Elsewhere in the bibliography, texts touch on concepts around radical computing that are as practical as they are speculative, looking into informatics, nonlocality, hostipitality, and the issues of cis-temic oppression and euro-white tech hegemony.

Bibliography
05/12/2022
Digital Discomfort

A Wishlist for Trans*feminist Servers

Cell for Digital Discomfort

The Cell for Digital Discomfort, together with the other fellows involved in the 2021/2022 BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice, collectively set out to re-vision the “The Feminist Server Manifesto”(2014) into “A Wishlist for Trans*feminst Servers.” Joined by artist and designer Femke Snelting—one of the initial contributors to the manifesto—the BAK Fellows engaged in several conversations to broaden the interpretation of feminism portrayed in the original manifesto and to begin composing together an open-ended wishlist for techno-ecologies in the making.

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