Common Circuits: Book Launch Party

​Let's get together to discuss the book "Common Circuits" on the experience of community spaces for computing around the globe!

​Bring whatever you want to drink and share, we will provide pizza and books (to donate to Noisebridge).

​Here is the blurb and link for the book:

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​How do hackers facilitate community technology projects that counter the monoculture of "big tech" and point us to brighter, social, technical and ecological horizons?

​A digital world in relentless movement—from artificial intelligence to ubiquitous computing—has been captured and reinvented as a monoculture by Silicon Valley "big tech" and venture capital firms. Yet very little is discussed in the public sphere about existing alternatives. Based on long-term field research across San Francisco, Tokyo, and Shenzhen, Common Circuits explores a transnational network of hacker spaces that stand as potent, but often invisible, alternatives to the dominant technology industry. In what ways have hackers challenged corporate projects of digital development? How do hacker collectives prefigure more just technological futures through community projects? "Common Circuits" responds to these urgent questions with an analysis of the hard challenges of collaborative, autonomous community-making through technical objects conceived by hackers as convivial, shared technologies.

​Link:
https://www.sup.org/books/anthropology/common-circuits

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​See you all soon o/