old forgotten tech as good site for resistance.
accessible/findable/reuseable/etc
use of tech from an age of ubiquity, good manuals and spare parts
unobseleting, resurrecting, keeping alive
communities for making/fixing/maintaining/reminiscing
how some retro tech is rare and highly prized, how some have very few well-maintained examples or lack of preserved knowledge/skill, flooded markets and new interest raising costs, etc
old platforms as unsurveilled or paradoxically less secure, privacy in public
open channels, old communications networks, etc

Mentions

“an article on early filing cabinets written by John Tagg. Tagg’s description of these fixtures as instruments of power, privilege, and control (2011) […] portrayed the cabinet as […] a predecessor of what we now call a digital database. […] I asked myself whether, superseded by the ubiquitous cloud, a bulky, wooden and disconnected cabinet such as this one was not, paradoxically, the safest, most stable, and reliable technology for organizing memory today? A space for regaining autonomy and control over a vulnerable digital legacy in capture culture?” ⤴️

“Even if people would actively attempt to resist the mainstream mental state that they are being lured into on every single dimension of their life, this very act of resistance would be immediately swallowed by and become a legitimate part of the system. As the authors had it: “[a]nyone who resists can only survive by fitting in. Once his [sic] particular brand of deviation from the norm has been noted by the industry, he belongs to it as does the land-reformer to capitalism”(ibid., p.133).” ⤴️
“Deleuze’s concept of the control society, in which, through the pervasiveness of electronic technologies, “[i]ndividuals have become ‘dividuals’, and masses, samples, data, markets, or ‘banks’” (1992. p.5)” ⤴️
“an illusory sensation of living in a constant presence without beginning and end” ⤴️
“media infrastructures historically identified as sharply divided into phases of production and consumption, and subsequently, a sharp divide of media practitioners into producers and consumers. In his opinion, these mass media and technologies give receivers a series of fabricated and pre-established, mass-scale audio-visual experiences and narratives, effectively paralyzing all opportunity to construct and express individuality within collectives. ”

tech resistance needs tactical mobility

tech moves fast, any tactics based on reactionary response to, dealing with, or reducing impact of dominant technologies must be flexible, changeable, fast-moving, constantly updating

Mentions

“accelerating technological obsolescence seemed to have pronounced tactical mobility as a default, perhaps a mainstream mode of living with technologies today.” ⤴️