Conferencing and the commons
Though more technical, advanced systems can facilitate efficient communication for those with the expertise, it was necessary to maintain a low technical barrier to entry
Four Key Takeaways from Mutual Aid Organizing During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Beeck Center
Sit with this idea for a moment. So many of our stories about technology and disability are about technologies as redemptive, as having the power to normalize disabled people, to make us “overcome” our disabilities. They show us “better” living through technology, where better means something pretty specific in how people exist in the world. But so
... See moreAshley Shew • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
"technology need not be viewed as a monolithic ogre, outside our control, incapable of reform, and at best fit for only elim ination" -michael comber
What I think I’ve come to understand, more deeply than ever before, is that the enemy is not technology itself, but rather inequality and centralization of power and knowledge, and that the answer to these threats are education, diversity and justice.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
the long list of binaries: Tech is dehumanizing, tech brings liberation. Tech dragged the world into the mess it’s in, tech frees it from this mess. Tech creates isolation, tech connects marginalized communities. The difficult work that we face is to live and thrive beyond binaries and assumptions, and to aid and enable others to do so.