If we try to think technology otherwise, how do we do that when we are so deeply entangled with technologies that we want to be different?

In the last few tears it has become more apparent than ever: a few technology companies have gained immense amounts of power and money by slowly but surely nesting themselves into all aspect of our lives. From healthcare to private conversations, from scientific research to cultural expressions, contemporary life are interwoven with the interest of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Zoom. Where the critique on their operations is mainly organised around their ability to capitalize on data extraction ("the oil of the 21st century") it seems we urgently need to update our critique. 



 
 
This question triggered Radio Implicancies. It might sound impossibly abstract, but as you know, it is rooted in concrete concerns. From the way the Latin alphabet has become ubiquitous in human-machine interfaces to the naturalized alignment of computation with binary separations[1], mis-directed critiques on algorithmic racism[2], eco-solutionism immersed in technocapitalism[3], to the way that technological systems are soaked in colonial thought, if not practice…[4] We know that technology orients knowledge and constrains what world(s) can be thought, studied, imagined and critiqued. But where do we start when we want to do things differently? 
Radio Implicancies invites you to experiment with propositions by feminist, non-binary, queer, anti-colonial and other disobedient researchers in response to this complex knot. Their resistant praxes widen the toolset for ‘thinking the world’ by paying attention to both matter and form. Their work considers feelings, intuitions, inventions, humour, diffractions and figurations in order to expand techno-epistomologies (technological knowledge systems) as well as their ontologies (ways to think about what technologies exists). They ask what non-exclusionary categories could do, or what other ways of calculating, validating, ordering collections of digital material could emerge. Of course none of the guests offers simple fixes to any of the issues on the table. 
I borrowed the term “implicancies” from Denise Ferreira Da Silva and Arjuna Neumann. In their film ‘4 Waters: Deep Implicancy’, “implicancy” stands for entangled forms of responsibility that keep modern operations in place: extraction, disposession, segregation, externalisation and optimisation.[5] But “implicancy” is also a technical term used in propositional calculus, explained as ‘the hypothesis of an implication’. Without having much experience with this type of mathematical logic, to me it suggests the possibility of a paradigm shift, not just by external agents, but by the power of imagination. As Da Silva writes: ‘What will have to be relinquished for us to unleash the imagination’s radical creative capacity and draw from it what is needed for the task of thinking The World otherwise? Nothing short of a radical shift in how we approach matter and form.’[6]
Radio Implicancies starts in the middle. We'll experiments with (and think with) Structured Query Language (SQL), library standards, queer analytics, other catalogs, alternative orders, streaming protocols, various platforms, listening, recording, annotating. Let's take a deep breath and jump in to re-invent what it means to deal with implicancies and with being implicated. 




Taking on the cloud
Marloes van der Valk https://aprja.net//article/view/128184/174364
Nathan Schneider https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1281/1457

https://accss.nl/podium/open-brieven/overstappen-naar-de-cloud-bezint-eer-ge-begint/
https://www.delta.tudelft.nl/article/open-source-alternative-zoom



Articulation
Hardware bifurcation 
Infrastructure bifurcation
Cloudflare + ecology https://git.disroot.org/dCF/deCloudflare/src/branch/master/subfiles/rapsheet.cloudflare.md
Ecology https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03140631/file/Musiani_AtelierACDD-27janv.pdf

https://syncthing.net/

The Ddivision on time

Frederic Durand

Helen and Ren

Digital Discomfort

https://disroot.org/en/faq

Other alternatives
A feminist server ...
https://delightful.club/
Fransesca Bria web3
https://web0.small-web.org/
https://autonomic.zone/ -- worker owned

Captioning
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/23/display-your-speech-in-realtime-to-help-lipreaders-in-the-mask-era/ 

https://post.lurk.org/web/statuses/107711600837101807 against VC

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https://googlecloudcheatsheet.withgoogle.com/