Afrodiasporic philosophy of technology

Abstract

The philosophy of afro-diasporic technology consists of philosophizing that questions the technological way of being, thinking and doing, considering the historical boundaries that configure the afro-diasporic condition of women, men and diversity in slave and post-enslavers contexts in terms of being, acting and doing. It is a reflection that calls into question the contradictions between African cultural parameters and those of european coloniality. In this way, the central purpose of the work is to describe, guided by the intuitions of the phenomenological method, the world of life present in the afro-diasporic experience, the way of being, of thinking and of a technological doing ignored by colonial thought narratives. Bibliographic research and afro-diasporic oral reading, mediated by phenomenological guidance, lead the study in question. The result that the reflection points out brings to the fore the centrality of African ancestry in the configuration of the ways of being, thinking and acting memorized in the black bodies of the diaspora. These, inserted in the historical plot, developed technology. The appearance of the principles of aphrodiasporic technology highlights the ways of being, acting and doing anchored in fidelity to the life received from ancestors and to the lives of future generations, nourished by solidarity and the uncompromising defense of freedom.