Future Crafting Seminar

​​This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House, open to faculty and fellowship candidates only.

​In this module, we tackle a range of tactics and strategies for societal transformation, including experimentation, prefiguration, envisioning, hyperstition and new hegemonies and sovereignties. This module centres on social technologies for diverse futurisms.

​Dr Zarinah Agnew is a neuroscientist by training. After spending over a decade in academia, they left to study the science of groups of brains - that is, humans in collectivity.

​Alongside their work with the college, Agnew runs three nonprofits aimed at experimental aspects of society, collective transformation and para-institutions. The Social Science Observatory is dedicated to the study of social science in the wild, Alternative Justices works towards abolitionist community-based harm prevention and response, and District Commons engineers experimental spaces where humans can ‘be otherwise’.

​Agnew is currently Director of Research at the Collective Intelligence Project. Together, these strands allow both the prefiguration of new social configurations, as well as the study of their transformational potential.