We live under a capitalist mode of computing. The tools, languages, techniques, and assumptions of digital systems are structured by economic forces that shape not just what we can do, but what we can imagine doing. By separating production from use, producing inflexible software, and slicing up computing into siloed apps, your agency is held back by a tech industry that profits from a population rendered computationally passive.
We seek to catalyze discontent with the state of computing by understanding the roles of production, labor, and power in shaping the foundations of digital systems.
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Software without Apps
articulation
This is a test post, to see how things are looking on the site... We live under a capitalist mode of computing. The tools, languages, techniques, and assumptions of digital systems are —and always have been— aiding and entrenching exploitative labor relations, hierarchical power structures, colonialism, and patriarchal models of the world. Your agency is constrained and shaped to extract profit, b...
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Compostable Software
Articulation
Software design for disassembly and decomposition. GitHub is not a repository of knowledge — it is a landfill. Made mostly of software which has died, constructed from materials which cannot be decomposed. Dead software is the norm. An ever-growing landfill of ghosts is perpetuated by commercial interests who claim the rights to own systems after death. To advocate for compostable software is to c...
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Dual Power
Tactic
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Information Substrates
Alternatives
It is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. colonialism, and patriarchal models of the world. Your agency is constrained and shaped to extract profit, by separating programmers from users and organizing around software commodities — real agency is a threat to a trillion dollar industry and so we are told that this is just how technology works.
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Malleability
Vector
This is a test post, to see how things are looking on the site... We live under a capitalist mode of computing. The tools, languages, techniques, and assumptions of digital systems are —and always have been— aiding and entrenching exploitative labor relations, hierarchical power structures, colonialism, and patriarchal models of the world. Your agency is constrained and shaped to extract profit, b...
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User Agency
Vector
This is a test post, to see how things are looking on the site... We live under a capitalist mode of computing. The tools, languages, techniques, and assumptions of digital systems are —and always have been— aiding and entrenching exploitative labor relations, hierarchical power structures, colonialism, and patriarchal models of the world. Your agency is constrained and shaped to extract profit, b...