Technology in the Public Interest

Kate Rich, in conversation with TITiPI

Plublished in FoAM0s anarchive: https://anarchive.fo.am/silver/technology_in_the_public_interest/  

 

Picket signs for the Trans*feminist Digital Depletion Strike, March 2023.

 

"Instituting for TITiPI is an attempt to go against an as-a-service approach where everything should be flexible and instantaneous. Instead, we want to structure for collective generosity and exuberance at a time when too many things are on fire. So TITiPI's critique is not anti-institutional but about the need to institute otherwise. It is linked to the particular abolitionist politics we are committed to, which means we need to think about what infrastructures we need to dismantle, as much as which ones we need to build. "

"Public interest should be about these modes of care, of supporting life, beyond just a basic idea of care – and we shouldn’t shy away from practical solutions either! That's the type of reimagining we're interested in: that the public interest might be that. And then how to do that is really hard! "

"That reimagining happens across space-times including rebellious memories, inventive side-steps or uncomfortable prospections, so it's not only the projection of a future of linear progress, in a developmentist sense. That is one of the fundamental spell-breakings "

 Full conversation -> https://anarchive.fo.am/silver/technology_in_the_public_interest/