Abstract
Technological objects should not be thought of as neutral devices. Rather, this paper views them as agents that, along with language, act to call into being particular human subjects. Navigational technologies (especially the global positioning system) have arisen from colonial discourses whose hallmarks are control, domination, surveillance, and a computerization of nature. Outdoor users and professionals need to be aware of these hallmarks and their effects or risk replicating practices that do violence to various human subjects and environments. Furthermore, when technological objects are engaged as if they were neutral, opportunities to refashion the relationship(s) between ourselves and nature are limited.
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