Dandara Pagu

Digital culture theorist, constructive disobedience advocate and southern expansion thinker.

Profile

Dandara Pagu is a contemporary Brazilian thinker who operates at the intersection of digital culture, aesthetic militancy, and institutional reimagining. Her approach values the construction of affective networks as resistance to technological colonialism. Combining art, hacker philosophy, and peripheral narratives, Pagu proposes forms of collective intelligence and creative insurgency against the centralizing paradigms of Western modernity.

Areas of Impact

• Digital culture and technological decolonization
• Constructive disobedience and creative insurgency
• Affective networks and collective intelligence
• Peripheral narratives and southern epistemologies

Key Ideas & Philosophy

• Technological Decolonization: Resistance to the colonialism embedded in digital technologies and platforms.
• Affective Networks: Building emotional and creative connections as forms of political resistance.
• Constructive Disobedience: Strategic non-compliance that creates new possibilities rather than mere destruction.
• Southern Expansion: Valorizing knowledge and perspectives from the Global South against Northern hegemony.

Notable Quotes

"Technology is not neutral - it carries the DNA of those who created it, and we must hack it to serve our dreams."
"Affection is a political force that can rewire the circuits of domination."
"True innovation comes from the margins, from those who have been excluded from the centers of power."