BY MADISON SNIDER

I have become increasingly perturbed by the insistence that corporate partnerships, tech giants, institutional leadership, and governing bodies can provide the care we need and that these patchwork solutions can still work.

If you knit, you know better.

BY THOMAS PATRICK PRINGLE

In this short essay, I want to sketch a brief genealogy of the term ecosystem with recourse to the tactics of postcolonial computing studies to draw the term’s eugenic assumptions into sharper relief.

BY AYESHA VEMURI

Hydraulic infrastructure acts both as a means of materially displaying the power of the state, and also as an instrument of silencing the ecologies, waters, and peoples who currently reside in the Brahmaputra valley.

BY RÉKA PATRÍCIA GÁL

Space colonization becomes a speculative strategy to maximize capitalist profits while mitigating future existential risks.

BY CRYSTAL CHOKSHI

“More,” like so many of the words I study, is a misleading discourse.

BY KATHRYN BLAIR

As the faces we can generate from algorithms become more and more convincing, I ask whether our existence is any more meaningful to a decision system than that of a collection of generated pixels.

BY MAX LIBOIRON

Declaring that a research project is the “first” to discover, do, or go somewhere is not only rarely correct, given the myriad local knowledges operating since time immemorial, but is also imperialist and colonial in nature, using language of priority, exploration, discovery, and uniqueness in a way that erases other people and forms of knowledge. Discard Studies offers frameworks about erasure, privatization, and dispossession that enable us to analyze the power relations of firstness and firsting in research.

BY MADELEINE MENDELL

Living DNA data storage holds a visual mirror up to the preservationist’s labor and confronts us with a question: what is it to maintain a record over time?

BY KRISTA LYNES

How is ripening about time, and how might it challenge our dreams of better, more ecological, and more equitable futures?

BY TANNER MIRRLEES

Over the past decade, a discourse about the power of Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft (or, the “GAFAM”) has grown in North America and around the world. While much is regularly said about GAFAM’s power, what often goes without saying is what is meant by it.