As someone who has been involved for twenty years in trust and identity and security, I still was shocked after the Snowden Revelations.
My fears today are the companies, the twenty-six persons who have the 48% of the capital of the world. And as the Internet reflects the world, we have the same in the Internet.
A lot of these things were predicted, and we were told about them—we were warned about them. Things like loss of privacy and malevolence on the Internet and malware. We were warned, and a lot of us um, put on our rose-colored glasses and said oh well, let’s go chasing waterfalls anyway.
I really hope that the Internet can continue to have connectivity without bifurcation. That we don’t have little Internets everywhere.
It’s always true that it’s easier to break things than to make them secure. So, as long as we have just an arms race, the bad guys will keep winning.
My hope is that the Internet continues to develop based on its underlying culture, which is an open technology that is accessible to everyone.
What would it mean to have people who weren’t just academics in an environment true to the highest ideals of academia? Of solving problems, of examining questions and our own assumptions about answers to those questions?
Full Surrogacy Now means two dialectically opposed things. It is simultaneously a utopian cry for the queer gestational commune, and a description of what’s going on right now, which is very much not that. The dystopian structure of planetary reality in the present. Indentured service, subalternity, crowdfunding, outsourcing, neofeudalism, civil strifes, invisiblized sub-sub-contracting, and above all—to use the phrase of Shellee Colen—reproductive stratification.
In a world of globally-dispersed supply chains, an energy transition in the United States has implications for the extraction, production, and distribution of resources and technology in places well beyond US borders.
The urgency of climate change and the rise of a grassroots legislative political environmental movement in the United States should change the way urban planners think and act on spatial change and social justice.
It occurred to me belatedly that I really should just tweet my acceptance speech. Except I don't have Twitter account, so that makes it harder. Read more →
I was participating in a European Commission project, and it was really a surprising period. In less than ten years, the whole Internet changed. Read more →
I decided to go to graduate school and got an MFA in art and social practice. And came out with a way to collectively describe my practice, which is "hospitable democracy." And I call it "a platform for multiple voices across power structures for people and objects." Read more →
The mythology of genetic coercion is thoughts that genetic data, especially large-scale genetic databases, have the ability to pinpoint certain risk of disease. They provide agency to act to prevent such disease, and it can be used to create accurate personalized treatment for disease, and it should also be entrusted with the authority to dictate the modification of the genome for future generations. Read more →
In a series of short talks we're going to share examples of some of our past and upcoming work, alongside examples from our parent organization Global Voices. But I want to start by saying something about how we go about our work. Read more →