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Inspired by Black Quantum Futurism's Black Hole Spacetime Machine—a community-driven time capsule and future-visioning project in Philadelphia—this session explores digital justice as a practice of temporal sovereignty. The Black Hole Spacetime Machine invited residents facing displacement to deposit memories, predictions, and messages across time, challenging the violent erasure that gentrification imposes by creating an archive that refuses the colonial logic of linear progress. It asked: what if communities under siege could preserve not just their past but their futures? What if we could archive dreams, warnings, and visions as rigorously as we document harm?
We examine how digital tools can help us break free from oppressive timelines that treat Black and Brown communities as disposable, always past, never future. Through dialogue with digital archivists, we explore questions of data sovereignty, algorithmic justice, and how we build technologies that honor non-linear time, ancestral knowledge, and future generations simultaneously. When the archive becomes a portal—collapsing past, present, and future—how do we use it to resist displacement not just of our bodies but of our temporalities? How do we code liberation across time itself? This session treats digital justice as speculative practice: the right to remember forward, to be archived in the futures we're building now.
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