Why?

Updated 10 months ago

Technology is inherently political. It is comprised of systems, tools, and practices that structure, encode, and reproduce relational dynamics of power and control. Building technology is an act with direct—not merely coincidental—political and social consequence.

The digital systems we interact with in the modern day—a world of endless abstractions, representations of representations, and efficiencies of efficiencies—have become instrument and accelerant to our collective economic, physical, and spiritual impoverishment. They are built by—and reproduce—a system intended to maximize the extraction of value at the expense of all else, from fixed resources to those of our behavior and attention. For all of the supposed benefits of our modern technopolitical system, we grow increasingly alienated from ourselves, each other, and the world we live in.

Before one can find points of intervention within a system, one first must practice something more foundational: conceptualizing and affirming the possibility of alternatives to what is already present. There is nothing more invigorating than a vision that inspires collective action—and nothing more destructive than the death of our collective imagination.

If we relinquish our imagination, we give up all hope of exercising our own power.

Slowly, but surely, I want to imagine again.