Caught in the fish traps : an immanent analysis between Programming the Future (PtF) and Aboriginal youth

This article concerns a project funded by the Save the Children organization to help indigenous youth in regional areas of NSW pick up and become competent in high-tech skills (Programming the Future: PtF). The Save the Children team established accessible online high-tech resources and trained champions to disseminate the skills they learnt through masterclasses in specific high-tech areas. Rather than a simple narrative of cultural and learning transference, this writing takes seriously the mixing of cultures, histories, and mindsets that PtF represents. This paper suggests that an immanent analysis of the situation, drawn from the philosophical work of Deleuze and Guattari (1988), gets inside the shifting power relations and interlocking cultural dimensions of this project. Deleuze and Guattari (1988) offer a non-representational approach to data and research, that gives the analyst the freedom to attend to the cracks and in-betweens of such as project, whilst being able to figure different realities from multiple points of view.