"We have a Dream": how to translate totemic existential territories through digital tools
"We have a Dream": how to translate totemic existential territories through digital tools
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https://doi.org/10.28998/rm.2023.14.15749Keywords:
Mythology, Digitization, Cartographies, Dreams, Australia, WalperiAbstract
At the closing plenary session of the 2010 Information Technologies and Indigenous Communities (ITIC) Symposium in Canberra, delegates decided to write1 a series of recommendations to improve Indigenous community access to digital technologies. A young Martu filmmaker, Curtis Taylor, from Parnngurr (Cotton Creek), stepped up to the microphone and said: “We have a dream like our elders: in the mind; digital technologies”. This chapter shows some analogies between the cognitive mapping of desert dreams, the rhizomatic structure of the web, and the cultural and political contexts of the use of digital technologies. These are discussed based on examples of films produced and disseminated by indigenous Australians in order to emphasize their messages on YouTube and similar websites created since the mid-2000s. Technical and anthropological issues related to the project of expanding, to a pilot site, a CD-ROM that developed in the 1990s with 50 Warlpiri artists from Lajamanu. The question here is to analyze, amid the indifference and hostility in public space expressed by politicians, the media and some academic discourses, the ways in which marginalized human groups, such as original peoples in various parts of the world, enunciate and construct their subjective singularity and territories. existential factors in the process of transformation and social mobility. In this sense, the web today is a platform for enhancing local expressions of agency and the politics of cultural claims designed as new systems of knowledge and collective intelligence for the future. Such a development, in fact, challenges the responsibilities of anthropologists.
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