Tag: liberatory technology
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Is all technology authoritarian?
The Terminator franchise draws from a deep well of mythology – preying on our fears that humans will be crushed by the technology that we ourselves create. The horrible inevitability of our fate makes it a compelling story. There is a converse myth: that through ever-advancing technological progress, rational man (and we can go down…
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Does digital fabrication technology lower the barriers to making?
(Note: this is part of a series of half-formed thoughts. The usual caveats apply.) The question is left intentionally generic. In practice, the sentiment takes many more specific forms, often unstated, or expressed as a sense of optimism, rather than explicit arguments. Nevertheless, I have talked with many people who are either proponents of digital…
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Making a Temporary Autonomous Zone
Well, my last hunch went a bit long, so here I’m just going to plant a stake in the ground and try to leave it alone. It’s fair to say that many of us dissatisfied with the dominant model for organising society, whether we’re marxists, anarchists, or just artists (I’m only the last of these), are attracted…
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Platforms are the new gatekeepers
This post is one of a series of hunches that explore ideas around Liberatory technology. I am thinking aloud. Caveat emptor. OK, so a strand of any discussion about technology and emancipation has to be about the role of the web in enabling more people to access tools, information, collaborators, distribution and markets, and conversely…
Andrew Sleigh 