For the last stop of my current travels, I’m at the undisputed conference highlight of the academic year – the 2026 Association of Internet Researchers conference in Mexico City, which starts with a keynote by Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil. She starts with the saying that the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house, a saying which is perhaps also applicable to our current sociotechnical situation – to the mixture of patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism. This is a mixture which cannot be separated any more; it is also a series of systems that beget each other: patriarchy creates colonialism, and …
