Book in progress · Working title
Indigenous Counter-Interfaces
The book develops a theory of the interface as a site of governance, from Indigenous ground. It asks what is at stake when relation becomes data, and how the conditions governing that relation continue to matter.
Eight statements in two orientations, cardinal and diagonal.
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The roots are Indigenous. The reach is unbound. Another way of standing in the same place.
Cardinal orientation
Two orientations
The same statements, in a reading view.
Cardinal
- The interface is not neutral. It is where sovereignty is decided: before the first field is filled, before the first record is saved.
- The record is not a fact. It is a decision: to include, to exclude, to translate, to erase.
- Nothing here is decorative. Everything here is directional.
- What you call an interface, we call a relation. What you call data, we call a person.
Diagonal
- Before the form, the relation. Before the field, the kinship. Before the record, the person who decided what to keep.
- Persistence is not given. It is built, held, and sometimes refused.
- What the system reads as refusal, the community reads as home. Same gesture. Different world.
- Not every interface faces outward. Some hold a center.
2028 provisional target
The ideas are the things that last, with proper persistence conditions.
Darren Edward Lone Fight
MHA Nation · Dickinson College
Carlisle, Pennsylvania