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.@agaleszczynski responding: focus looks at ontological overdetermination of techno-capitalist takeover but technology is malleable / in excess prescripted & programmed uses >> my ques not objects but what are excesses & how to get to them? #diggeog #femgeog #critgeog

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.@agaleszczynski the glitch is a "positive departure," per @LegacyRussell, that is a "correction to the 'machine' ... [of] normative and hegemonic systems" @ukgeog #diggeog #critgeog #femgeog

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.@agaleszczynski we need not rely on mass resistance alone for social change but can also turn to glitchy-ness, not as solution but interference, that affords other forms of capital and power in cities / advocating for tactics && strategies @ukgeog #diggeog #critgeog #femgeog

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.@agaleszczynski glitchy-ness interferes in the politics of inevitable technocapitalist takeover / resist platform of #platform #urbanism >> links back to work of @ProfGillian as well as @geoplace & @TowardsFairWork Fndtn, etc @ukgeog #diggeog #critgeog #femgeog

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.@agaleszczynski we need not throw out #platformurbanism or #platformcapitalism theory but an entreaty to re-theorize them as glitchy through different bodies/experiences esp, so that we can remake cities differently @ukgeog #diggeog #critgeog #femgeog

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.@agaleszczynski where glitches surprise us, cause effects upon other platforms, and are absent inform empirics >> so the task before us, quoting @SaraNAhmed, to identify and take action @ukgeog #diggeog #critgeog #femgeog

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.@agaleszczynski 3rd glitch as absence (cont.): platform city interface is not fully engineered / designed by capitalist entities but we are part of assembling through open, use, pay w app @ukgeog #diggeog #critgeog #femgeog

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.@agaleszczynski 3rd glitch as absence: Vanc as ridehail-less city = momentary disappoint of no Uber app (material/affective) did not make me use competing app (bc effort of new app/signup) but to use existing public transit (which knoe well) @ukgeog #diggeog #critgeog #femgeog

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.@agaleszczynski 2nd glitch as casualty: #deleteUber campaign w 1st socmed campaign re surge charges of opportunism when access blocked >> think of platform (Uber) becomes undone by rise/effect of other app/action (Twitter/protest) @ukgeog #diggeog #critgeog #femgeog

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.@agaleszczynski 1st glitch as surprise bc platform made visible: #sidewalkToronto that "Sidewalk Labs 'hadn't foreseen' data concerns' of dataveillance of neighborhood, "passion Canadians have for data residency" @ukgeog #diggeog #critgeog #femgeog...

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.@agaleszczynski glitch is also an ethos of attunement in #platformurbanism where they cannot be smooothed out / "fixed" to fit corp/neolib desires >> offers three glitches, starting with #sidewalkToronto @ukgeog #diggeog #critgeog #femgeog

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.@agaleszczynski builds from @LegacyRussell's use of the "glitch" from #glitchfeminism: where the error "may not be an error" but opens possibility for change >> AL sees this as epistemological endpoint where can shift away from dystopian endpt @ukgeog #diggeog #critgeog #femgeog

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.@agaleszczynski quotes @_sarahbarns responses "to new configuration btw people, networks, & urban infrastructures resulting in real-time, ubiquitous technologies and platforms" >> city becomes contemp stage of neoliberalism of explaining self @ukgeog #diggeog #critgeog #femgeog

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.@agaleszczynski now bringing us back to @jathansadowski & my dear friend @claudiakincaid argument "Amazon is running its own hunger games – and all the players will be losers" @ukgeog #diggeog #critgeog #femgeog...

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.@agaleszczynski referencing @n_srnck's work on #platformcapitalism as well as Rodgers & Moore whereby there is a speculative substitutions of "capitalism for urbanism" @ukgeog #diggeog #critgeog #femgeog

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.@agaleszczynski "while platform urbanism remains unsolidified thesis to signal governance/tech/capital shifts..." but also "increasingly advanced with platform capitalism superimposed over #urban social fabric" @ukgeog #diggeog #critgeog #femgeog

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.@agaleszczynski citing #SarahBarnes, @RobKitchin, and @shannonmattern to open her talk when defining #platform #urbanism >> now moving on to def of #smartcities in relation @ukgeog #diggeog #critgeog #femgeog

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.@agaleszczynski defining #PlatformUrbanism as the ways platforms & cities as increasingly shaped by other, the capital within, and the culture as well: scale, scope, ambition in and beyond material geogs alone like sensors / automated systems @ukgeog #diggeog #critgeog #femgeog

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.@agaleszczynski kicking off "Glitchy Vignettes of #PlatformUrbanism" here at @ukgeog as part of our #diggeog series and @universityofky Year of Equity series. #critgeog #femgeog

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.@spaceforpeace: however to fully create peace is not yet here, still #Columbia has made a global breakthrough to build an inclusive peace w its differential & still difficult approach #critgeog #geopol #femgeog @ukgeog

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.@spaceforpeace: organizers who long built #ColumbianPeaceAccord have been assassinated & brutal sexual violence against the #women long engaged with mvmt #critgeog #geopol #femgeog @ukgeog

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.@spaceforpeace: #ColumbianPeaceAccord also has "territorial approach" but not same usage >> instd process of local participatory planning to self-define peace & how to implement it >> but then peace differentiates by race/gender/region++ (WOW) #critgeog #geopol #femgeog @ukgeog

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.@spaceforpeace: while regulations around gender sensitivity have been implemented fully (80%), the actual operational development is much less so fully (18%) >> also issues of implementation by region #critgeog #geopol #femgeog @ukgeog cc #PEhrkamp

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.@spaceforpeace: #women's #movement now demanding #data to actually measure implementation of #ColumbianPeaceAccord >> use hashtags that show that there are women here & must be recognized #critgeog #geopol #femgeog @ukgeog

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.@spaceforpeace: one ex of gender-senstive approaches not applied is the caseworkers who put these programs into action do not use the right forms / language and cannot be measured #critgeog #geopol #femgeog @ukgeog cc #PEhrkamp

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.@spaceforpeace: still media around #ColumbianPeaceAccord portrayed #gender / #lgbt equality as special rights even when approved by #Columbia's Congress >> applications are very unspecific to affirmative measures #critgeog #geopol #femgeog @ukgeog

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.@spaceforpeace: even w white settler heteropatriarchal ableist efforts to thwart #ColumbianPeaceAccord >> & #women's & #lgbt's movement responded to keep lgbt rights + differential approaches w lang in the new accord to assure equity in applic #critgeog #geopol #femgeog @ukgeog

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.@spaceforpeace: now walking us through the racialization of #Columbia geographies (relates to geodiscursive prod of racial identity terms) >> violence in these more remote lands paints them as geog imag of "tropicality" as "savage" #critgeog #geopol #femgeog @ukgeog

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.@spaceforpeace: found correlation btw lower / high altitudes of vote patterns & also found pattern btw altitude & patterns of discriminations >> not to make any env determ arg but rather draw attn to / unpack geog patterns to peace #Columbia - #critgeog #geopol #femgeog @ukgeog

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