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Digital Tribulations 24: Perspectives of Digital Liberation in Latin America Between Dependency, Labor, and Automation – Interview with Juan Martin Graña

By Gianmarco Cristofari, September 9, 2026

The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital sovereignty in Latin America, can be read here and the entire series can be found here. I met Juan Martín Graña, a CONICET researcher, one morning in early April in Buenos Aires, at a café called Aromi, near Parque Centenario, [...]

Streaming after Instantaneity

By Michael Dieter, August 3, 2026

Speech at INC Exit Fest, OT 301, Amsterdam, 25th June, 2026. Online video has become the general condition of social media, a streaming vortex driven by extractivism and behavioural targeting. Reflecting on my experience as a member of CDI-TV,[1] a collective contributing to StreamArtNetwork (SAN), I want to consider this condition from a specific angle, [...]

Digital Tribulations 23: Let’s Talk About Digital Sovereignty in Latin American Governments – Interview with Luis Papagni

By Gianmarco Cristofari, August 2, 2026

The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital sovereignty in Latin America, can be read here. The entire series can be found here. Esteban from the AGC (Asociación Gremial de Computación) — Argentina’s tech worker union — invited me to the first meeting of the informatical workers of [...]

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