Of Technology and Lost Connections: A Decolonial Approach to As Telefones by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida as a Hypercontemporary Novel

This chapter explores the decolonial potential of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s sixth book, As Telefones (2020), which read as a hypercontemporary novel whose interpretative possibilities go beyond established approaches to the work of the author, presents the book in the broader framework of semi-peripheral European fiction. Drawing attention to the ways in which the narrative portrays cosmopolitanism in the age of migration, it focuses on the book’s decolonial critique of the entanglement of technology and capitalism in its longue durée, registered in the fractures of contemporary intersubjective relations.