Definiciones para Entender la Tecnología Desde una Perspectiva Decolonial

Abstract

Approaching something new always implies that at first there is curiosity and interest in knowing how it is configured, what it looks at and how it creates knowledge. Therefore, the first thing we do when faced with the unknown, or the new, is to identify its limits and try to define it, to make it familiar in order to fit it into the categories we know and create relationships that allow us to understand it. Thus, technology when we approach it from philosophy and in this case from a decolonial perspective becomes something new that needs other definitions to be fully addressed. So, before entering into discussions on the subject it is pertinent to define some first concepts that, if they are not fully differentiated, we could fall into the error of confusing them because of their apparent similarity. Once the differences have been established, it will be easier to approach the field in a more concrete and accurate manner. For this exercise we take definitions offered by contemporary authors who are working in the area of philosophy of technology and digital colonialism. In the text “on digital colonialism” Tello (2023) begins to introduce quite similar terms as they have the same genesis, but become different meanings, so, although colonialism, coloniality, neocoloniality, neocolonialism, decolonization and decoloniality are related, each one responds to a different manifestation.