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Technology acceptance depends on whose interests it serves, not the technology itself.

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aliases@fanon_dying_1959, loc. 21

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Technology acceptance depends on whose interests it serves, not the technology itself.

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The Algerian people accepted the radio when it ceased to be an instrument of the enemy and was useful for the revolution. In the same way the Cuban people accepted literacy and achieved it in a year when this became a goal of the revolution, when they saw it was tied to their own concrete interests and not to those of capitalist governments. The transistor radio has been transformed into a revolutionary implement as powerful as the gun. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 21

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  • XREF: Parallels the medical-techniques pattern in the Algerian case — rejection under imperialism, embrace under revolution. — connects to: Colonized peoples accept technology once it serves their own revolution; Technology becomes accepted only when it serves revolutionary interests; No technology is neutral; each reproduces or contests power — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2421 (+12 more)

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