Category: writing

knowledge politics by Josh LepawskyMay 18, 20263:23 pm

A blue coloured icon of a data server, surrounded with comic-book style words 'Gasp!', 'Boom!' and 'Pow!' in colours of yellow and red.

Experiments with ‘local AI’

Given my broader research interests and the non-consensual inclusion of my work into AI data training sets, I figure I have some license to play around with these tools to get a sense of what […]

writing by Josh LepawskyApr 17, 202610:20 am

Geography matters

Discard Studies by Josh LepawskyMay 2, 202510:18 am

An image of the cover of Technocracy Digest magazine from May 1940. The title and iconography are shown in bright red. The centre image is a black and white photo of a sawmill. At the bottom left corner of the cover is a depiction of a map in red showing the Technate of America. In the opposite corner is a similar icon shown in red that simply states "Facts".

Network, Patchwork, Technate: geographical imaginations of the ‘tech right’

Is it possible to design a structure of government which will be stable and predictable? Hopefully, of course, stably and predictably benign? History affords no evidence of it. But history affords no evidence of semiconductors, […]

writing by Josh LepawskyMay 7, 202311:15 am

MEMEX

This is an experiment in writing-as-thinking-on-the-go. It’s inspired by Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic blog. It uses the library function of Zotero to create a publicly available ‘memex‘ of notes and writing for a notional public audience. […]

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