Resources

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/easy-to-make-ultra-low-power-electronics-could-charge-out-of-thin-air https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3334480.3381829

security vs usability

eg how more stringent password requirements have made passwords harder to remember so the system is less useable - then loops back round to low security as people write them down or repeat one

accessibility

see a11y for digital accessibility

slow tactics

“inventive employment of possibilities within strategic circumstances” (Highmore, 2002, p.159)

tactics as anti-reactionary forms of disruption tactics for creation, production, for the long-term tactics as alternative perspective, alternative dimension

everyday practises of self-actualisation and self-transcendence collective action through habits and healing and learning and sharing and building resistive action as bottom-up dismantling

alternative systems

our time and energy is limited; face the way you want to go

Mentions

“To oppose something is to maintain it. They say here “all roads to Mishnory”. To be sure, if you turn back on Mishnory and walk away from it, you are still on the Mishnory road. To oppose vulgarity is inevitable to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.” - The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin

why ‘alternative systems’
- revolt vs reform
- things that must change slowly
- things we’re all tasked with upholding
- things that we’re doomed to repeat
- discussion of strategy vs tactics
- bottom up top down convergence
gift economies in theory and practice
- public conveniences
- community-owned infrastructure
- non-hierarchical organisations
- abolition (alternatives to policing and justice system)
symbiosis of theory and practise
indieweb
decentralisation
etc

find a cool hammer and everything is a nail

tool overuse/misuse because the tool is cool
first saw analogy used for questionable choices of AI use (yt comment)

low tech

against forced progressivism and tech for tech’s sake
prioritising the system working as intended for collective and individual goals rather than over-focusing on using a specific tool or technology

slow tactics as electrical metaphor, as a “relation to technical/material/electrical procedures, or as a conscious act of mindfully lowering, balancing, and re-orienting the intensity of the (electric) current, consciously stabilizing the relationship between the (electrical) input and the output, and thus, to some extent, taking control of this current.” (Smolicki, 2017)

alternative display of data
alternative peripherals
sustainable methods of power and storage

https://specialprojects.studio/project/paper-phone/