The Collective for Liberation, Ecology, and Technology
“We misconstrue machine learning as being powered by data, when in fact machine learning makes use of data to produce within techno-social system…we can’t understand machine learning in isolation of the black female form. In other words, in order to understand automation and capital we must return to the racialized and gendered conception of...
He Tells Her by Wendy Cope He tells her that the earth is flat — He knows the facts, and that is that. In altercations fierce and long She tries her best to prove him wrong. But he has learned to argue well. He calls her arguments unsound And often asks her not to...
In the past few years, there has been an discussion in various communities about the value of offering/having a community or cooperative platform and how we can own it. The idea of such a platform is central to what we are trying to accomplish here at CoLET and as such we have discussed it...
What We Read: “Degrowth? How About Some Dealienation?” – Terisa Turner, Leigh Brownhill, and Wahu Kaara (article) Maria Mies, Silvia Federici, and Biopower (article) Technology & Ethos Vol. 2 Book of Life by Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) What came up for us: Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle from CUSEC on Vimeo. Dynamic...
On January 18, 2018, CoLET gathered at the beautiful Brooklyn Community Foundation office with ecologist and technologist friends — old and new — to drink, eat, and talk as about the roles we do and can play in struggles for liberation. Opening Remarks: CoLET was created less than a year ago after Camille Acey...
CoLET (The Collective for Liberation, Ecology, and Technology) is a small, Brooklyn-based, community-centered, radical feminist and anti-capitalist community of study and practice. We work to maintain, develop, extend, and promote open tools and documentation for political communication and organization. We view our technological work not as liberatory work in an of itself, but rather...
Intimacy starts with the ceaseless project of connecting to oneself as we move through the world and its endless combinations of variables. My version of radical happiness is nurturing this intimacy with myself as I do the same for others. Living on the margins and connecting with marginalized folks, we find affirmative identification through...
Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona discusses feminizing politics —- As we’ve continued to think more critically about what we want to work on, it has become abundantly clear that our focus does not need to be on just writing more software. Much of the software that radical and progressive groups need for communication and...
Readings: The GNU Public License Toward an Open Cooperativism What Came Up For Us? We primarily focused on people-centered economics, how technology can empower people, and how we can help people harness their technology in a way that is secure and also empowering. Karl Polanyi and The Market Society / “the triad of land,...
“Children do not begin by learning the rules of grammar and then using these rules to construct a successful sentence. They learn to speak the way they learn to walk: by imitation, trial, error, and endless practice. The rules of grammar are the regularities that can be observed in successful speaking, they are not...