Strategic illiteracies: the long game of technology refusal and disconnection

IF 5.4 3区 材料科学 Q2 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL
E. Plaut
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Abstract

Disconnection and avoidance have been theorized various ways, e.g., by analyzing communicative and non-communicative affordances of devices and platforms; categorizing tactics and patterns of non-use; and through analogy with historical ways of seeking solitude and resisting technologies. This article, however, treats history not only as a source of analogies for momentary disconnections, but also as a timescale on which to understand slower undercurrents of resistance. I define “strategic illiteracies” as: purposeful, committed refusals to learn expected communication and technology skills, not only as individual people in specific moments, but also in communities over time. This concept connects technology refusal to historical lineages of resistance to linguistic and orthographic imperialism, analyzing examples including the Greek alphabet in antiquity, Chinese characters in Asia, and the Latin alphabet through European colonization. This new framework and genealogy of avoidance and technology refusal elucidates ways forward, slowly, for successive generations to reclaim their communicative futures.
战略文盲:技术拒绝和脱节的长期博弈
断开和回避已经以各种方式被理论化,例如,通过分析设备和平台的交流和非交流可供性;对不使用的策略和模式进行分类;并通过与寻求孤独和抵制技术的历史方式的类比。然而,这篇文章不仅将历史视为瞬间断开连接的类比来源,还将其视为理解较慢阻力暗流的时间尺度。我将“战略文盲”定义为:有目的、坚定地拒绝学习预期的沟通和技术技能,不仅是在特定时刻作为个人,而且随着时间的推移在社区中也是如此。这一概念将技术拒绝与抵抗语言和正字法帝国主义的历史谱系联系起来,分析了古代希腊字母、亚洲汉字和欧洲殖民时期的拉丁字母等例子。这种回避和技术拒绝的新框架和谱系慢慢地阐明了几代人重新获得沟通未来的道路。
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ACS Applied Energy Materials
ACS Applied Energy Materials Materials Science-Materials Chemistry
CiteScore
10.30
自引率
6.20%
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1368
期刊介绍: ACS Applied Energy Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of materials, engineering, chemistry, physics and biology relevant to energy conversion and storage. The journal is devoted to reports of new and original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrate knowledge in the areas of materials, engineering, physics, bioscience, and chemistry into important energy applications.
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