La puissance décolonisatrice des affects complexes

Although virtualized life opens up new perspectives for the human imagination, it is also responsible for creating new forms of vulnerability, especially among teenagers and young adults who are social media users. Faced with the challenges posed by the algorithmic governance imposed by platforms such as Instagram, the project “Portray, Reset and Reterritorialize: decolonizing the algorithmically configured digital experience through affect” aims to offer strategies that enable the decolonization of these users’ experiences. Strategies developed from observing the role of complex affect during photographic experiences generated and mediated by algorithms. On this occasion, we will present the main theoretical and methodological aspects applied, which constitute a proposal for digital visual education through photography and new forms of image production. This research is anchored in Silvan Tomkins’ Theory of Affects and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception.