Seyram Avle: "Future Worlds: Chinese Techno Power and African Imaginaries"
- Date: 12 November 2024, 10:15–12:00
- Type: Seminar
- Lecturer: Seyram Avle
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- Organiser: Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS)
- Contact person: Mattias Bolkéus Blom
Seyram Avle (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study & University of Massachusetts, Amherst) will give a seminar on the topic "Future Worlds: Chinese Techno Power and African Imaginaries". The seminar will be followed by a Q&A session.
Abstract
Situated within current geopolitics and historical Afro-Sino engagements, this talk will focus on some of the ways that the logics and discourses of Chinese technological production intersect with African techno-imaginaries. Specifically, I will map the socio-technical practices that link Africa and China via the design and uses of AI, computing hardware, and data flows, primarily outside of state and state-sponsored projects. Through this, I provide evidence for how particular techno-futures are being made, adapted, and refused by entrepreneurs and citizens ‘on-the-ground’ amid changing geo- and techno-politics.