Courtesy of DigiLabour
DigiLabour/University of Toronto and Argentine Federation of Tech Worker Co-ops (FACTTIC) are launching Other Tech Worlds Are Possible, Volume 2, the second issue in a comic series that highlights experiences of worker collectivities across Latin America who are expanding the meanings of technologies (check out the first one here).
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About the comic
Imagine a constellation of Argentine tech cooperatives: each one shining on its own, but far more powerful when they connect and work together. That is FACTTIC. In this second volume of Other Tech Worlds Are Possible, readers are introduced, through a fantastical narrative rich in visual metaphor, to how cooperativism and tech development grounded in the solidarity economy are transforming Argentina.
Sit in on assemblies where values such as diversity, democracy, innovation, queer technologies, communication, and equality are held in common. Discover projects born from cooperation between cooperatives, including concrete initiatives like IA4Coops, an artificial intelligence proposal made by cooperatives, for cooperatives. This is a story about the power of cooperating to build fairer technologies.
About the project
Other Tech Worlds Are Possible uses the comic format to share artistic narratives of worker collectivities across Latin America who are expanding the meanings of technology while struggling for social justice. These stories celebrate the power of political, social, technological, and artistic imagination to tell different stories about technology, beyond the ideology of Silicon Valley.
The first volume, produced in collaboration with the Tech Sector of the Homeless Workers’ Movement in Brazil (MTST), showed how technologies are also built from the territories, critically, creatively, and as part of the struggle for housing and social justice
The project is supported by the University of Toronto, through the UTSC Departmental Research Fund awarded to the Department of Arts, Culture and Media, and by the SSHRC Insight Development Grant for the Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP) project.
Credits
- Script and research: Natália Sierpinski
- Illustration, lettering, and layout: Germana Viana
- Coordination and editing: Rafael Grohmann
- Co-production and review: FACTTIC
- Collaborators: Cecilia Muñoz Cancela (Código Libre), Laura Arcuri (Animus), Elena Ficher (ALT)
CLCF Co-Director & Assistant Professor
Rafael Grohmann is a Co-lead and Co-Director of the Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF) cluster and an Assistant Professor of Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) at the University of Toronto. Rafael is the leader of the DigiLabour initiative and founding editor of the Platforms & Society journal.
