Destillat: Electronic Colonialism
Kultur
Cultural Heritage
As scholars, historians, and archaeologists continue to discover, explore, and expand access to tangible and intangible cultural heritage, more and more problems arise that permeate conservation efforts.
Preservation of cultural heritage is not one of the topics that received much attention in the past century. However, the goal is to isolate and expand conservation research.
Zitat: Whose heritage?
‘We believe [in a museum] what we are being shown is not only accurate, but the norm of that culture and people. We trust that the objects have been selected to showcase the best of that community, no more no less’. S.204
Source: Samia Ouladzahra, Whose heritage?, ed. Anne Marie-Bonnet, Floorplan papers: 2017. S. 119-204
Zitat: alt.civil izations.faq: Cyberspace as the darker side of the West
“Beyond postmodernism’s subjugation of the realities, modes of knowing and actual being of Other cultures, the West urgently needs new spaces to conquer. The moon and the inner planets are ruled out for the time being given the cost of colonizing them. The outer space is a domain best left, for the time being, to Star Trek. For the conquest to continue unabated, new terrestrial territories have to be found; and where they don’t actually exist, they must be created. Enter, cyberspace.”
Zitat: Whose heritage?
“Inevitably, the stories of cultural objects do not cease at the point of creation but are inextricably linked to their colonial masters or non-Western influence”. S.119
Source: Samia Ouladzahra, Whose heritage?, ed. Anne Marie-Bonnet, Floorplan papers: 2017. S. 119-204
Zitat: Wie Rassismus aus Wörter spricht: Kultur
“Ein zentrales Problem eines homogenisierende >K.verständnisses< liegt unserer Meinung nach darin, dass es Gruppen in ein dichotomes >Wir< und >Ihr< einteilt und damit Differenz, Hierarchie und Ausschluss erzeugt. Auf diese Weise fungiert der Begriff als Werzeug bei der Konstruktion des/der >Fremden< (Othering) bzw. des/der —> >Ausländers/Ausländerin< als Verkörperung des/der >kulturell Fremden<. Während die >Mitglieder< der >eigenen K.< meist als individuen gesehen werden, wird >Angehöringen< einer >Fremden K.< oft ein gruppentypisches Verhalten Unterstellt.”
Quelle: Katrin Osterloh & Nele Westerholt, Kultur. In: Susan Arndt & Ofuatey-Alazartd (Hg.). Wie Rassismus aus Wörter spricht, (K)Erben des Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv deutsche Sprache, Unrast: 2011. S. 413
Zitat: Exotic Trade
‘In the show, Rezaire draws parallels between the layout of submarine optic cables (the very architecture of the Internet) and colonial trade routes to point to the powerful symbolism underpinning ‘electronic colonialism’ whereby the Internet has literally been built on routes of Black pain’.
Source: http://tabitarezaire.com/exotictrade.html