Category: Posts
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Want to see where the internet is stored?
Want to see where the internet is stored? I’m doing an event at the Internet Archive on June 8 in San Francisco: https://lu.ma/governable-spaces-sf Featuring Yasmine El Baggari (Hylo), Emeline Brule (Sequoia Fabrica), Shamika Klassen (Afrofuturistic speculation)
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Never do a book event alone
San Francisco, the democratic internet is coming for you. June 8, 4 p.m., at the former Christian Science church that is the Internet Archive.
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Lightning talks at the SF #GovernableSpaces event
Come hear from some amazing folks in SF 6/8: https://lu.ma/governable-spaces-sf
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Another kind of sovereignty is possible (it already happened)
Spoiler alert: My book #GovernableSpaces ends with this image by Darija Medić, borrowing from the wonderful https://native-land.ca—a reminder from Indigenous legacies that sovereignty need not depend on monopolies over land and militarized borders. Start reading at the end, if you do that: https://luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.181/read/?loc=013.xhtml
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Congratulations, Shamika!
I’m so thrilled to celebrate my friend Shamika Klassen for finishing her PhD here at CU Boulder. Read about her extraordinary work here: https://www.colorado.edu/cmcinow/2024/05/06/making-digital-less-discriminatory She’ll also be speaking at my upcoming book event in San Francisco, June 8: https://lu.ma/governable-spaces-sf
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Governable Spaces in SF
Hey Bay Area! I’m excited to announce an event on #GovernableSpaces at the Internet Archive on June 8, featuring three brilliant governance experiments from: Yasmine El Baggari (Hylo)Émeline Brule (Sequoia Fabrica)Dr. Shamika Klassen (CU Boulder) Register here: https://lu.ma/governable-spaces-sf
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Are you ready to make hard decisions?
If you’re, say, occupying space somewhere with other people, you’ll need to have a way to make hard decisions—like, say, how to face attacks by fascists or police. That’s why my lab is building CommunityRule.info, a tool for designing self-governance practices, grounded in mutual aid.
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Bitcoin Halving
I’m quoted in a @CoinDesk report on the Bitcoin halving, in which I decry the longing for financial systems beyond human control: https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2024/04/18/this-bitcoin-halving-is-different-but-is-it-priced-in/
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A day for Palestine
My friend and colleague Nabil Echchaibi opens up A Day for Palestine at CU Boulder—with food, art, dance, VR, poetry, and testimonies from Gaza, “to dream Palestine free.”
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“YouTube philosophers”
I wrote in America Magazine about masculinity and attention spans among some popular podcast philosophers: https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2024/04/08/joe-rogan-lex-fridman-youtube-247650