High latencies #6
Ingrid Guardiola
Ingrid Guardiola is an essayist, filmmaker and arts manager whose career has been marked by the unwavering desire to question the structures that condition the way we see, feel and live: from visual culture to the production dynamics of arts institutions, by way of the changing ways in which we live and work. Her latest essay, La servidumbre de los protocolos (The Servitude of Protocols), looks at the underlying paradigms that shape contemporary life, unpacking the devices that govern our gestures, our time, and our interactions, under the banner of efficiency, surveillance and saturation. Ingrid Guardiola examines how technological, administrative and cultural protocols have become the invisible language of power. Under the guise of neutrality, these forms of organisation operate as mechanisms of control, modifying our relationship with time, knowledge, bodies and connections.
But La servidumbre de los protocolos is not just a critique of platform capitalism and its automatization processes. It is also a text steeped in personal experience, an attempted exorcism, and a defence of the imagination as a form of resistance. Ingrid Guardiola sees protocols not just as simple procedures but as a cultural form that structures experience, distributes roles, and determines what can and cannot be seen, what is legitimate and what remains outside the frame. The essay links historical genealogies and direct experience, showing how the technological and the symbolic are intertwined in the social apparatus.
In this podcast, we talk to Ingrid Guardiola about mutualism, symbols, and rituals, about the limits of cultural institutionalism, and about the cracks that make room for resistance. And we consider the possibility of thinking and feeling outside the boundaries imposed by the techno-bureaucratic apparatus.
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