What is the imaginary we share about what technology is? The most usual answers come as artifacts, metals, machines, rockets, robots, guns, bombs, cars ‒ in an imaginary almost always filled with a notion of technology as something mythical, almost magical, far from our control. Technology appears as something that organizes our worlds, without us having the power to control its ways. There is no lack of films depicting the apocalyptic world when machines overtake us. Violence invariably appears in this imagination as a cousin sister of technology: domination, fear, anguish, destruction and control are part of the same package ‒ and masculinity runs glued to this twisted colonial imagination. The invented masculinity must be technologically skilled, and what we understand as technology is tied to the world built as masculine.

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Are there other possible ways of thinking about technology? Would it be possible for us to think that the care, the vessel, the bag, the cure, the earth, could inhabit what we imagine as technology? Aren't these also artifacts, ancestral  ones, used by humanity to build our life in society? Unlike the stick, a trademark of colonial-patriarchal technology, the cloth that carries the baby (or the basket, or the hair, or ...) does not share the same social ‒ nor technological ‒ status. The construction of what is feminine inhabits a distant place from what is technological, and vice versa. What we define as technology is deeply related to the layers of power instituted in the modern Western world. Technology is one of the pieces that make up the structuring of social relations ‒ not as a disconnected artifact, but as an organically active molecule in the weaving of power.

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Reinventing relationships also means to reinvent the technology. Reviewing the power structures of gender and race also involves reviewing the hierarchies of technology. What we understand by technology, what we value as technological, what we choose to exalt as necessary artifacts, are elements that are part of the struggle for transformation. We claim the PANA as a technology. As well as the bag, the cure, the container, the folding, the tying. Beyond being technologies, these hold the power of reinventing social relations. They carry the possibility of seeing the world, and technology, from a welcoming and caring perspective. They shelter the trees from which we can see the sprouti of life, and not death. They reclaim the imagined world where violence and control are the only possibilities, and open spaces just to hold, to welcome and to shelter the weavings of life, which are multiple and infinite.