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| − | === Week 15: Closing week === | + | === Week 15: Closing week: Alternative visions, and our shared ideas for longer term practice === |
* Real time lecture: Wednesday August 13th, 12-2 pacific/ 1-3 mountain/ 2-4 central/ 3-5 eastern | * Real time lecture: Wednesday August 13th, 12-2 pacific/ 1-3 mountain/ 2-4 central/ 3-5 eastern | ||
* Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/9129428892 | * Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/9129428892 | ||
===== Readings ===== | ===== Readings ===== | ||
| + | This week's readings explore alternative visions of the internet and technology, from activist and social movement approaches. As always, get through what you get through - some of these are long. But definitely bookmark them for later. | ||
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| + | * [https://libcom.org/article/machine-breakers-eric-hobsbawm The Machine Breakers, Eric Hobsbawm (1952)] | ||
| + | * [https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/index.php/site/q/03lv03445/04lv03996/05lv04001.htm The Story of the Secret Underground Communications Network of Operation Vula, Tim Jenkin (1995)] | ||
| + | * [https://jacobin.com/2015/04/allende-chile-beer-medina-cybersyn/ The Cybersyn Revolution, Eden Medina (2015)] | ||
| + | * [https://logicmag.io/bodies/another-network-is-possible/ Another Network is Possible, April Glaser (2019)] | ||
| + | * [https://ainowinstitute.org/publications/questioning-tech-work-2 Questioning Tech Work, Joan Greenbaum (2020)] | ||
| + | * [https://logicmag.io/the-making-of-the-tech-worker-movement/full-text/ The Making of the Tech Worker Movement, Ben Tarnoff (2020)] | ||
===== Tasks ===== | ===== Tasks ===== | ||
| + | This week, we'll discuss the readings, and then each take turns saying a few words about our ideas and plans for longer term practice. | ||
Latest revision as of 15:06, 6 August 2025
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- Real time lecture: Wednesday August 13th, 12-2 pacific/ 1-3 mountain/ 2-4 central/ 3-5 eastern
- Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/9129428892
Readings[edit]
This week's readings explore alternative visions of the internet and technology, from activist and social movement approaches. As always, get through what you get through - some of these are long. But definitely bookmark them for later.
- The Machine Breakers, Eric Hobsbawm (1952)
- The Story of the Secret Underground Communications Network of Operation Vula, Tim Jenkin (1995)
- The Cybersyn Revolution, Eden Medina (2015)
- Another Network is Possible, April Glaser (2019)
- Questioning Tech Work, Joan Greenbaum (2020)
- The Making of the Tech Worker Movement, Ben Tarnoff (2020)
Tasks[edit]
This week, we'll discuss the readings, and then each take turns saying a few words about our ideas and plans for longer term practice.
