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In this sense, politics, when organized, is also a kind of technology: the framework of communication and processing which governs everyday interaction and possibility.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
“Under algorithmic feeds, the popular becomes more popular, and the obscure becomes even less visible. Success or failure is accelerated.” — Kyle Chayka, Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
Gaby Goldberg • Making the Internet Alive Again
Positive Friction encourages an alternative design practice in order to restore human agency within online spaces. We stand for a frictional digital experience in order to explore unprecedented creative routes to escape the flaws of standardized design.
DVTK • Positive Friction
expose the merely rhetorical nature of some of its claims about the rawness of the data it provides.
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum • Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (The MIT Press)
‘we shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.’
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Paul Millerd • #100: We Need 100x More Creators Online
sousveillance, the practice of watching powerful institutions from a ground-up perspective.
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
In an era more profoundly organized by Big Tech than our own elected governments, the new culture to be countered isn’t singular or top-down. It’s rhizomatic, nonbinary, and includes all who live within the Google/Apple/Facebook/Amazon digital ecosystem (aka GAFA stack).