1. We Need a Usable Past for a Democratic Future

A Spanish Prince’s Automaton and an American Novelist’s Living History

2. An Internet Built around Consumption Is a Bad Place to Live

Cityscapes, as Imagined by Sigmund Freud and Jane Jacobs

3. Digital Surveillance Cannot Make Us Safe

Policing Bodies and Time on London’s Docks

4. Technology Is as Biased as Its Makers

Exploding Cars, Racist Algorithms, and Design Beholden to the Bottom Line

5. Technological Utopianism Is Dangerous

The Tech Billionaires Have Nothing on the Paris Commune

6. Collaborative Work Is Liberating and Effective

Poetical Philosophy, from Lovelace to Linux

7. Digital Citizenship Is a Collective Endeavor

Tom Paine’s Revolutionary Idea of Public Participation

8. Automation Can Mean Less Work and More Living

Downing Tools So We Can Build Robots to Eat the Rich

9. We Need Digital Self-Determination, Not Just Privacy

Frantz Fanon Theorizes Freedom

10. The Digital World Is an Environment That Needs to Be Cared For

Ancient Forms of Governance Hold Relevance for Modern Infrastructure

11. Protect the Digital Commons!

Socialize the Cows

Conclusion: History Is for the Future

Another World Is on Its Way

We Keep You Alive

Unskilled labor does not exist by Lizzie O'Shea

hell yeah

Invisible Handcuffs

It’s time for workers to throw off the shackles of big tech by Lizzie O'Shea