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Geert Lovink (INC) ispirato dal dialogo con Reclaim the Tech: The world is eager for alternatives that scale up—but why are so many so clueless about how to roll them out? Why is hype, sell-out and betrayal the only available option? Reuse and Repair should indeed be thought of together with the third R: Refuse. The new sign of social class struggle, is a gesture, the right not to be summarized—as in the case of AI. Many agree that alt-tech movements from now on have to refuse to be neutralized, crushed and silenced. But this also implies refusing to give up, refusing to be fragmented and refusing to be reduced to the logic of fashion. Reclaim the Tech, the Italian name for the movement under discussion here is mobilizing techno-social forces in society that refuse to be taken over by Big Tech as an ever-alienating, ever-regressive force.[5] Reclaim is indeed the fourth R. What does it imply to reclaim? At the time, the UK 1990s movement ‘Reclaim the Streets’ aimed to retake the street as a free public space, against police repression and surveillance, but also the car as the dominant mode of transportation in cities. This, in turn, built on a 1977 feminist protest called ‘Reclaim the Night’ against patriarchal violence. To reclaim means to take back lost territory. What does this mean for the ‘tech’ context? The answer can be simple: program or be programmed (as Douglas Rushkoff’s booklet is called). We are not talking about programming as in coding, but as programming as in political assembly, the program of a movement or a party. No need to know Javascript for that. What’s needed is a program for multiple and diverse commonalities. Reclaim the Tech goes further by claiming “We are Tech”. This means that tech is no longer some passing phenomenon, enforced upon us. Tech is inside us, we carry it close to our skin (and in some medical cases even underneath). It is intimate, like the ‘femtech’ menstruation apps, as described by Morgane Billuart in her book Cycles.[6] In the case of social media platforms, tech has shaped our mental wellbeing. We will learn to live with it and mobilize Care as a general principle and do a collective effort to transform the poison into a cure, the pharmakon Bernard Stiegler so often spoke about. To make this happen techno-culture’s intent will have to be to sidestep both authentic nostalgia for the old and artificial longing for the new. Let’s overcome both retromania and ‘future addiction’ (as dictated by liberal donors) and start to get used to the idea of timeless tech. Reuse implies one-off assemblages of old tech that we use to create new styles and modes of expression. The aim is to prevent regression to a past that was—and still is—patriarchal, totalitarian, racist and violent. The past can be fully integrated into the future: hybridpunk, not cypherpunk. Forget the false romanticism for industrial ruins. Don’t be lured by right-wing libertarian honeypots. And remember, neoliberal tech-misery is real. This movement aims to overcome involuntary regression and stagnation—the decease of our time. The cultural problem of today is that one can dream up and prototype no matter how many solutions we want but we’re all running up against the thick corporate walls of technofeudalism. Instead of burnout and depression, let’s extend the degrees of freedom. Liberatory movements in culture must be celebrated. Collective weirdness and ecstasy should be passed on to new generations, time and again. This is a techno-cultural rite de passage. Go mad but do not follow the footsteps of your celeb, influencer or guru. Become, and overcome your heroes of the past (and their peculiar techno-extensions). https://networkcultures.org/geert/2024/08/24/principles-of-perma-hybridity/

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