Critical reading/writing on tech!

[caracalled]

Lately I've been watching a lot less video content, which means I'm reading a lot more than usual. I fell down the rabbit hole of (critical) writing on tech (and often also design), both reading it and writing my own!

Here are a few pieces I really enjoyed:

How and Why I stopped buying new Laptops — Low Tech Magazine

In defense of the poor image — Hito Steyerl

Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media — Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

The Permacomputing Wiki They have in-person meetups too! Near me!

Neural Magazine (I've only been able to browse this at the library so far)

The History of the Web Not sure if this qualifies as critical, but it is interesting!

Digital esthetics, environmental change and the subcultures of computer art — Ville-Matias Heikkilä

The Cyberfeminism Index Pretty well-known I'd say, but I'll still include it. Always looking for recommendations from this!


And some more I have on my reading list:

This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee (the literal inventor of the internet!)

I really enjoyed both Hito Steyerls and Wendy Hui Kyong Chuns writing, so I will seek out more of it! I have a few of their books/texts on my reading list, but it's a little too much to list here!

My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? — Laurel Schwulst

”Western Melancholy“ How to Imagine Different Futures in the ”Real World“? — interakcije


This has really caught my interest, and I want to read a lot more! Does anyone else like to read stuff like this? What are your favourites? Do you like to write as well?

[cute]

Omg yay thanks for the haul *o* I really like the newsletter Dense Discovery by Kai Brach, for your next read.

[Yaya]

Thanks for the reads, this was great! It's not exactly on topic, but I really enjoyed the book Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Dow Schüll. The title can sound a bit boring but it is actually one of the most absorbing, informative, and impactful books I've read! She does beautiful research on how machine/computer-based gambling is deliberately designed to get you in this state known as "the zone", and how it can be really hard to break away from it. Based on your post and other reads I think you may really enjoy it!

[ThunderPerfectWitchcraft]

Benjamins "

" is highly recommended.

Friedrich Kittler did deep analyzes about the interlacing of society and technology. "The Truth of the Technological World" is a collection of texts that will give a lot of insight into the development and effects of technology.