Category: Posts
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Other Networks at Metagov Seminar
At this week’s Metagov Seminar, join me to celebrate my colleague Lori Emerson’s gorgeous new book, Other Networks, a sourcebook of stories and designs for networks that are not the internet: https://luma.com/4kfjgd6a
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Remembering Grace Lee Boggs
Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Grace Lee Boggs, one of the great guides of my life. In her spirit, let us always keep asking ourselves, “What time is it on the clock of the world?” If you’re in Detroit, consider going to this.
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Ivan Illich’s grave
Today, a last-minute pilgrimage in Bremen to the resting place of Ivan Illich, my guide for so many years. In a cemetery full of stone markers and manicured flowers, his is a simple wood cross in a patch of vernacular herbs.
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Tenure
It has been the honor of my work life to serve the people of Colorado as a professor at CU Boulder, and to have my colleagues’ support—today, with a medal recognizing tenure. I’m wearing a sweater from my grandfather, an earlier Prof. Schneider.
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“Online Governance Surfaces and Attention Economies”
Is it possible, or even desirable, to actively participate in collective governance across many arenas of our lives? I’m excited to share a preprint of a long-in-the-works paper with team Metagov, exploring the intersection of online governance and attention economies. I hope it’s useful! https://doi.org/10.33767/osf.io/cdrmp_v1
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The Californian Ideology is back
Thirty years ago, this week, an article diagnosing the “Californian Ideology” of Silicon Valley was published. This scathing critique has become a badge of honor for the new tech right. As I argue today in Tech Policy Press, it has never been more relevant: https://www.techpolicy.press/thirty-years-on-the-californian-ideology-is-alive-and-well/
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AI special issue call
Once again, Andreas Hepp and I are teaming up to edit a special issue of the Int’l Journal of Communication—this time, you guessed it, on AI. Come map the emerging imaginative minefield around this eerie tech: https://comai.space/en/call-for-papers-the-imaginative-landscape-of-ai-visions-positions-conflicts-2
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Behind the Startup review
Just posted, at last: A review of one of my favorite recent books, Benjamin Shestakovsky’s “Behind the Startup”—the most rigorous and precise account I’ve seen of how the dominant startup model produces inequality: muse.jhu.edu/article/968586
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Two ways to celebrate Other Networks!
I am so, so excited to help launch my colleague Lori Emerson’s extraordinary new book, Other Networks. We’ve got two events coming up—mark your calendars! In Boulder (9/10): https://calendar.boulderlibrary.org/event/14949129 Online (10/8): https://lu.ma/4kfjgd6a
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Big Tech’s turn to Trump is not mysterious
Leading figures across greater Silicon Valley have turned right for the same reason business elites always have: they want more power over their workers. https://lpeproject.org/blog/techs-turn-to-trump-was-a-labor-story-and-the-response-should-be-too/