12.04.2026 –, Seminarraum 1 Sprache: English
This conversation discusses data capitalism, the commons, and technopolitical alternatives in Latin America, focusing on collectives that build autonomous digital infrastructures. It highlights how initiatives like MariaLab, MTST’s Tech Center, and Señoritas Courier articulate care, digital sovereignty, and situated knowledge as responses to surveillance and power concentration.
This conversation explores the relationship between data capitalism, epistemologies of the commons, and emerging sociotechnical alternatives in Latin America, with a particular focus on technopolitical collectives that build autonomous digital infrastructures. It begins with a critical analysis of the rise of data capitalism and its social implications, investigating how different forms of knowledge and practice are articulated around the notion of the “commons”, contesting the directions of contemporary technologies. The study highlights the centrality of territory, cooperation, and situated knowledge in shaping technopolitical alternatives in the region. By incorporating insights from feminist science and technology studies, the research reveals how collectives such as MariaLab, with initiatives like Vedetas and Maria Vilani, the MTST Technology Center , with projects such as Contrate Quem Luta and the App da Vitória , and Señoritas Courier, with its bicycle delivery application — are reconfiguring the technological field by introducing practices of care, holistic security, and digital sovereignty. Grounded in an ethnographic approach, the dissertation connects theoretical debates and concrete experiences, demonstrating the multiple ways in which these organizations formulate critical and creative responses to the dynamics of surveillance, exclusion, and the concentration of power that characterize the digital age.
Master’s student in the Graduate Program in Human and Social Sciences at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC). Works as an Arts and Technologies educator at SESC-SP and as a SysAdmin apprentice at the MariaLab Hackerspace. Holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems (EACH-USP, 2021), a Full Teaching Degree in Social Sciences (FE-USP, 2016), and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences (FFLCH-USP, 2013). Has experience in gender studies, social markers of difference, software development.