LFI 2026/Week 15

Week 15: Closing week: Alternative visions, and our shared ideas for longer term practice

• Real time May 29th, 11-1 pacific/12-2 mountain/1-3 central/2-4 pm eastern
• Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/9129428892
• Slides: TBD

Readings

This week's readings explore alternative visions of the internet and computing technology, from theorist, 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)
• A Cyborg Manifesto (1985)
• The Story of the Secret Underground Communications Network of Operation Vula, Tim Jenkin (1995)
• The Cybersyn Revolution, Eden Medina (2015)
• The Xenofeminist Manifesto by Laboria Cuboniks (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

• Discord discussion TBD