Geek culture and hacker culture used to be relatively apolitical, but now every action that you take and every piece of code that you write has political effects. You may may intend some of these effects, you may not intend most of these effects, but they’re there and we need to start thinking about and understanding these changes.
30th Chaos Communication Congress
No Neutral Ground in a Burning World
presented by Eleanor Saitta, Quinn Norton
Policing the Romantic Crowd; Velocipedes and Face Recognition
presented by Anne Marggraf-Turley, Richard Marggraf-Turley
We have to be careful about distinguishing between mere analogies linking the Romantic period to our own age that maybe don’t have any useful analogs, and those that do have some continued operational relevance. Because it is the case that Romantic writers like John Keats, Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth, philosophically modeled and to some extent thought through many of the debates and issues that we’re currently having as we seek to shape the contours of our future societies.