The argument between ruin and salvation has crowded out the questions that actually matter: what kinds of technology, built how, by whom, governed through what mechanisms, in service of what? Over seven weeks the course works through those arguments, then turns to the alternatives now taking shape – d/acc's defensive, decentralising technologies; Plurality's tools for democratic coordination across difference; cosmo-localism's vision of local production drawing on a global knowledge commons.
It is for builders, policy people, educators and practitioners already working with or on technology who want a slower register for thinking about it than their working week allows – and who can be present, live, for two hours most Wednesdays.
