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/

 

on the problem of Indexing for Disability Justice: blocks, plates, boards, volumes and shafts

in conversation with Ren Loren Britton and Lieks Hettinga

  "There is an ongoing controversy, an ongoing renegotiation. We can see around a political need and desire to keep on considering; so not to close, or foreclose, not to not to arrive to a final consensus on what categories are there. An ontological openendedness if I may call it so. This means to take care of the redistribution of the sensible in the midst of such conditions, including an ontology of shape-shifting aesthetics which is constantly moving, with categories constantly differing from one another and in constant tension. I think this is also politically generative — to think about categories, and this ontology they make from an aesthetic perspective.

I wanted to celebrate the way in which your work, Ren, is really in love with the slipperiness of language. This is also a form of bringing language to places where it feels more poetic and not so much only descriptive. I celebrate this because language was never exclusively about the very technical accountability of the word, to begin with.

And to return to what I was saying earlier, slipperiness is a means for staying with the ongoing redistribution of the sensible in the linguistic realm. When you do that, many other forms also enter the mode and become slippery fields - like spreadsheets as containers which also eventually overflow. Thanks to poetics very grey corners of the world, like spreadsheets, gain some glitter in a radical political sense."

+ Full conversation: https://www.indexingfordisabilityjustice.info/conversation

+ Access to Ren's project: https://www.indexingfordisabilityjustice.info/

 

RENDER ME GREY

Interview by Geraldine Juárez

or 
a coffee conversation last summer,
published at sink.sexy

this is how we can maybe understand grey matter or grey literature: a spot from where you can turn the very probable into quite possible. This is where things can be altered. Precisely because this is the place where things can be written down, where things start tracing the too probable trajectories of the contemporary structuring of matter, and can be somehow partly re-written and changed from the probable to the possible in an instant. This at least is where the probable and the possible blur, they are both there. This is the spacetime of transformation.

+ at http://sink.sexy/texts/rendermegrey/