Hosted by clara lópez menéndez, Tech Nightmares, Illusions of Control is a 2-day study on contemporary and historical critical perspectives on the effects and implications that our reliance on technological devices, screens, data management systems, and the internet have for our forms of socializing, governmentality and participation, and therefore our sense of politics and the self.

Two sessions: Sunday November 23, Sunday November 30, 6:30 – 9PM

SECOND DATE CHANGED! NOW SUNDAY NOV 30!

Suggested Readings:

humdog: pandora’s box

Richard Barbrook & Andy Cameron: The Californian Ideology 

Deleuze: Postscript on the society of control

Kimberle Crenshaw & Gary Peller: Reel Time / Real Justice 

Vilém Flusser: Into the Universe of Technical Images (whole book pdf, recommended: “To Touch,” “To Signify,” & “To Scatter”)

Also this video by Safiya Umoja Noble on Algorithms of Oppression

HRLA Studies –– Free of cost –– No RSVP –– Come share and take some home