https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/ IT WAS THE most radical computer dream of the hacker era. Ted Nelson’s Xanadu project was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form. Instead, it sucked Nelson and his intrepid band of true believers into what became the longest-running vaporware project in the… Continue reading THE XANADU® PARALLEL UNIVERSE — Visibly Connected Pages and Documents for a New Kind of Writing
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Electronic Literature Collection
Electronic Literature Collection A Publication of the Electronic Literature Organization http://collection.eliterature.org/
Audre Lorde
1934–1992 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde A self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” Audre Lorde dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia. Lorde was born in New York City to West Indian immigrant parents. She attended Catholic schools before graduating from Hunter High School and published her… Continue reading Audre Lorde
SonicActs: AI as an Act of Thought — Dr. Ramon Amaro
An increasingly large proportion of human reality is now lived through algorithms. While our relationship with AI is undoubtedly important as a mode of knowledge production, it has far-reaching implications. Most significant is the disparity between the act of existing/existence – particularly as it relates to differential human states of being (race, gender, sexuality, etc.)… Continue reading SonicActs: AI as an Act of Thought — Dr. Ramon Amaro
Pedagogy of the Oppressed — Paulo Freire
Pedagogy of the Oppressed First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire’s work has taken on especial urgency in the United States and Western Europe,… Continue reading Pedagogy of the Oppressed — Paulo Freire
Design Justice | Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need — Sasha Costanza-Chock
Design Justice Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need By Sasha Costanza-Chock – https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/design-justice An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival. Summary An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and… Continue reading Design Justice | Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need — Sasha Costanza-Chock
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code — Ruha Benjamin
https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while… Continue reading Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code — Ruha Benjamin
Fictive Universities
The University of Bantshire Throbbing with knowledge since ’69 For literally months, @BantshireUni has been synonymous with balls-ups and faux pas in higher education marketing. We are a parody university. Obviously. Click on these images to see some of our favourite tweets. https://bantshire.github.io/ University Wankings
Accesible Wikis
Free We Built a Collaborative Documentation Site. Deploy Your Own With the Push of a Button. Library is searchable and renders content from Google Docs Northwestern University Knight Lab is a community of designers, developers, students, and educators working on experiments designed to push journalism into new spaces. The Lab provides an open, collaborative… Continue reading Accesible Wikis
About the project
Marginalised Voices: Neurodiversity and Inclusivity in the Design Process — A Speculative Design Exploration For this project, our group’s aim was to use speculative design and co-designing workshop techniques to amplify the voices of autistic children in relation to urban design aesthetics. In order to better respond to the brief, our actions have followed two… Continue reading About the project