Technology becomes accepted only when it serves revolutionary interests
Evidence
Solomon depicts how seemingly neutral technologies—medical infrastructure, surveillance—reproduce racial hierarchy across generations. The novel centers Black trans and queer characters and disability experience, modeling intersectional resistance. For equity scholars, An Unkindness of Ghosts exemplifies design justice’s central insight: there are no neutral technologies, only those that reproduce or contest power. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 2421 (
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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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Even if society were like an organism, there would be some controlling element, some centralized brain in the body, some region and group that would collect the power necessary to direct the nerves of communication and the arteries of transportation. There would be no trans- formation of the great society into the great community by way of disinter- ested technology but only in terms of the ways in which knowledge and culture were monopolized by particular groups. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 599 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Revolutionary peoples assimilate modern technology at extraordinary speed — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 26; Colonized peoples accept technology once it serves their own revolution; Technology acceptance depends on whose interests it serves, not the technology itself. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 21 (+6 more)
Related
- No technology is neutral; each reproduces or contests power (similarity 0.88)
- Technology acceptance depends on whose interests it serves, not the technology itself. (similarity 0.87)
- Colonized peoples accept technology once it serves their own revolution (similarity 0.86)
- Revolutionary peoples assimilate modern technology at extraordinary speed (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- No technology is neutral; each reproduces or contests power
#expands(0.75) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 2421 - Technology acceptance depends on whose interests it serves, not the technology itself.
#corroborates(0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 21 - Communication technology serves group monopolies of knowledge, not community
#qualifies(0.40) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 599