Information Workshops I: Information Technology Beyond Capitalism (Winter)

Section Description

This workshop invites students to imagine technology beyond capitalism. It explores alternative perspectives on technology design outside the confines of capitalist extractivist logics, financial incentives, colonial roots, and structural organization. Through examples, theories, and imaginative discussions, we explore facets of this large topic. We discuss: how capitalism shapes modern information technology; what crises we are in today and what we can expect from the coming decades; why ‘green growth’ is impossible; how some resist the drivers of capitalist tech in various places, times, and forms; what happens outside the systems of invention dominated by capitalist rules; how IT can be shaped differently; and how that already happens today.

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