Poetic technologies can be dark, brutal, dangerous—and that’s fine. Freedom isn’t safe. Bureaucratic technologies promise safety through perfect, eternal rules. They deliver gulags, surveillance states, bureaucratic nightmares. Without exception.

Speaking at #39C3 about the Museum of Care and the David Graeber Institute — survival kit collections, abandoned ships as museums and DGU Uni in East Africa. But most importantly, discussing with Cory Doctorow and Alastair Parvin (WikiHouse) what a university built around poetic technologies could look like. Poetic technologies aren’t gentle or beautiful—they can be dark, dangerous. But that’s what freedom looks like. Bureaucratic technologies promise salvation through “correct rules once and for all.” Always ends the same way.

The talk and dialogue will be available to watch online.