Futurismo indígena, medios digitales y metaverso especulativo postcolonial
[EN] The following article examines how Indigenous futurism, in dialogue with speculative design and emerging digital technologies, has become a key tool for the preservation of subaltern cultures, focusing especially on South Asian communities. This movement envisions possible futures in which trib...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2026 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) |
| Repositorio: | RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dnet:riunet______::00449d876f0ceb6c1f00c1e8cb56cd9d |
| Acceso en línea: | https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/234125 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Indigenous futurism Speculative design Digital media Metaverse Postcolonial art Contemporary art Futurismo indígena Diseño especulativo Medios digitales Metaverso Arte postcolonial Arte contemporáneo |
| Sumario: | [EN] The following article examines how Indigenous futurism, in dialogue with speculative design and emerging digital technologies, has become a key tool for the preservation of subaltern cultures, focusing especially on South Asian communities. This movement envisions possible futures in which tribal identities survive colonization, globalization, and the erosion of their heritage, using narrative strategies drawn from science fiction to reimagine worlds where their languages, cosmologies, and ancestral practices remain alive. It analyses how artists draw on the narrative and aesthetic strategies of science fiction to construct a speculative space from which to question dominant historical narratives while simultaneously asserting the persistence of their Indigenous subaltern identities in the face of an uncertain future. The speculative fiction methodology enables experimentation with alternative worlds that function as visual essays on the contingency of Indigenous existence and the possibility of projecting futures beyond the colonial narrative. Likewise, the works intersect with contemporary initiatives associated with the postcolonial metaverse, allowing them to be situated within current debates on digital identity, collective memory, and cultural sovereignty in virtual environments. These connections broaden the conceptual scope and demonstrate how digital media can become tools for rethinking the place of Indigenous communities in a globalized world. |
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