Digital technologies, data colonialism, borderlands, and embodied forms of knowledge.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Automated Extraction
Automated Extraction examines automated surveillance, targeting, and data extraction at the US–Mexico border, with particular attention to their impacts on Indigenous peoples and borderland communities. The research traces how technologies of extraction extend colonial infrastructures across land, data, and the body, asking how the border persists not only as a geographic condition, but as an embodied and technological one.
ONGOING INQUIRIES
The Body as the First Technology
The Body as the First Technology begins from the body as a site of knowledge, memory, and technological relation. The research considers how colonial and digital systems become embodied, held through memory, sensation, movement, and inherited experience, while asking how the body also operates as a site of refusal, reorientation, and knowledge-making.
Digital Attunement
Digital Attunement is an embodied and relational practice for sensing reciprocal encounters with digital technologies and systems of surveillance. Moving between attention, intimacy, listening, and refusal, the research asks what becomes possible when technological relations are approached not only through critique, but through the body's memory system, as one that attunes and navigates.
Data Colonialism
Data Colonialism & Indigenous Data Sovereignty examines how practices of data collection, extraction, classification, and representation reproduce colonial relations, while attending to Mestiza and Indigenous approaches to sovereignty, relationality, and knowledge. The research asks not only who controls data, but how technologies might be rethought through relations to land, community, and collective self-determination.
Automated Extraction
Automated Extraction examines automated surveillance, targeting, and data extraction at the US–Mexico border, with particular attention to their impacts on Indigenous peoples and borderland communities. The research traces how technologies of extraction extend colonial infrastructures across land, data, and the body, asking how the border persists not only as a geographic condition, but as an embodied and technological one.
ONGOING INQUIRIES
The Body as the First Technology
The Body as the First Technology begins from the body as a site of knowledge, memory, and technological relation. The research considers how colonial and digital systems become embodied, held through memory, sensation, movement, and inherited experience, while asking how the body also operates as a site of refusal, reorientation, and knowledge-making.
Digital Attunement
Digital Attunement is an embodied and relational practice for sensing reciprocal encounters with digital technologies and systems of surveillance. Moving between attention, intimacy, listening, and refusal, the research asks what becomes possible when technological relations are approached not only through critique, but through the body's memory system, as one that attunes and navigates.
Data Colonialism
Data Colonialism & Indigenous Data Sovereignty examines how practices of data collection, extraction, classification, and representation reproduce colonial relations, while attending to Mestiza and Indigenous approaches to sovereignty, relationality, and knowledge. The research asks not only who controls data, but how technologies might be rethought through relations to land, community, and collective self-determination.