Posts By: Pablo DeSoto

  • Citizen Laboratory

    #DroneHackademy

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    #DroneHackademy is a temporary hacktivist school, citizen science laboratory and critical theory platform for the use and discussion of unmanned aerial vehicles as a social technology.

  • Open Science

    Aerial mapping of Vila Autódromo

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    What does a resilient community against neoliberal urbanism look like from the sky? Vila Autodromo is a local community in Barra de Tijuca facing real state violence from construction companies and the local goverment close to place of Rio 2016 Olympics.

  • Citizen Laboratory

    Rio de Janeiro

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    The first edition of #dronehackademy occurred in June 2015 in Rio de Janeiro in collaboration with MediaLab.UFRJ and support of the Latin American Studies Network on Surveillance, Technology and Society (LAVITS).

  • Critical Theory

    Aerial countervisuality and the right to look from somewhere

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    Drones are a dark technology (Lichty). The military drones that kill civilians are unevenly distributed, geographically. The video “Our Drone Future” (Cornell) imagines a scenario where UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), with their technologies and capabilities, come to be pervasive in the skies of our future cities. The panoptic vision of the drone is a fundamental part of contemporary “complex of visuality” defined by the military-industrial complex, according to Mirzoeff. He proposes “the right to look” as a form of opposition to this alliance of visuality and power.