The Chain Mail Gaze
Duration: 00:07:29
Speaker: Wassim Z. Alsindi
Type: Lightning Talk
Expertise: Beginner
Event: Devcon
Date: Nov 2024
With their dreams of new ‘Network State’ empires, resource extraction, and colonial domination, today’s tech overlords are the descendants of Europe’s mediaeval Crusaders: well-financed, zealous fanatics remaking the world in the name of their greater good. Through a psycho-political reading of scarcity, chauvinism, and colonialism, The Chain Mail Gaze connects Crusader ideologues’ desire for blood, land, and booty, to emerging ‘frontiers’ mediated by contemporary technologies.