LFI 2025/Week 15

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
• Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/9129428892

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.

• 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

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.