Informational capitalism from the South. The Fetishism of Information and Materialities of the Coloniality of Data

Abstract

This text aims to relate the history of Latin American critical theory to the models of technological-informational imposition with the current concepts of informational capitalism, information fetishism and data coloniality, contextualising their applicability from the social and digital realities of the Global South. To do this, firstly, starting from the current processes of datification and corruption of data derived from socio-political organisational schemes, a historical review will be undertaken from the perspectives of Latin American critical theory on technology and information. Subsequently, the text develops the proposal to link the definitions of commodity fetishism and the materiality of colonialities with the processes of valorisation of information and datification of societies in order to, finally, elaborate a conceptual proposal of its own.