nika on poetic techs

via nika dubrovsky speaking at ccc conference (dgi – nika & alastair at ccc – 12 29 25) and in particular her tweet [https://x.com/nikadubrovsky/status/2005222093755986193?s=20]:

Poetic technologies aren’t gentle or beautiful—they can be dark, dangerous. But that’s what freedom looks like. Bureaucratic technologies promise salvation through “correct rules once and for all.” Always ends the same way. The talk and dialogue will be available to watch online.

to me.. there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. for (blank)’s sake..

notes/quotes from link to her page on ccc site [https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/event/detail/the-museum-of-care-open-source-survival-kit-collection]:

The talk is about the ideas behind setting up the David Graeber Institute and the Museum of Care. The Survival Kit Collection brings together collectives developing open source “social technologies” —spirulina farms, self-replicating 3D printers, modular housing, low-cost water systems, and … art and education. In 2019, together with David Graeber, we held the first workshop about the Museum of Care at CCC to reimagine the relation between freedom, technology and value. Over these 6 years, the Museum of Care and the David Graeber Institute have experimented with various projects: the survival collection, Visual Assembly, and creating an open space for horizontal knowledge production—something we hope to develop into an actual University.

dgi events.. university of dgi.. david graeber.. et al.. museum of care.. david and nika on museum of care et al..

We think humanity could already be living in a society of abundance and communal luxury. *We have the technologies to produce enough for everyone to have everything. The issue isn’t technological but social. This is why we need a Museum (of Care): museums are among the few places that create, distribute, and preserve what a society values.

*mufleh humanity law: we have seen advances in every aspect of our lives except our humanity– Luma Mufleh

What will be at the session: We’ll tell in more detail about the concept of the Museum of Care on abandoned ships (of which, according to Maritime Foundation data, there are more than 4,500 in the world). We’ll talk about the halls of our museum: the Hall of Giants and other emerging spaces. Projects we’re building—spirulina farms, 3D printers—in Saint Vincent (Caribbean) and Kibera Art District, Nairobi Kenya, Playground designed that communities can construct with nearly no resources. Can we actually build a nomadic museum proud not of its unique exhibits but of how easily they spread and get replicated?

Then we will move to an open conversation about what poetic technologies are and how they differ from bureaucratic ones. Some people may have read David Graeber’s book The Utopia of Rules; here you can download his other texts that are less widely known or not yet published. We would very much like to explore the question of poetic and bureaucratic technologies together with you. To facilitate this discussion, the David Graeber Institute has invited Alistair Parvin, creator of the Wiki House project, to join Nika Dubrovsky in conversation.

utopia of rules.. et al.. nika on alastair.. alastair parvin.. open systems lab (wiki house latest project).. et al

The discussion continues in the format of a *Visual Assembly—focused on building a distributed, non-hierarchical, **genuinely open University with different ideas of funding and knowledge production. This is the very beginning of the process so all input is very much welcome. We’d welcome any ideas, critiques, or proposals for collaboration.

*visual assembly ness..

**if still talking funding and knowledge production.. not new/diff uni ness

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more via nika’s post on bsky [https://bsky.app/profile/nikadubrovsky.bsky.social/post/3mb23ya57dk2p]:

Poetic technologies can be dark, brutal, dangerous—and that’s fine. Freedom isn’t safe. It’s unpredictable, uncontrolled, sometimes frightening. 1/

again.. graeber unpredictability/surprise law et al

We don’t know what will emerge, and that’s precisely the point. 2/

graeber can’t know law et al

Bureaucratic technologies work differently: they’re born from the certainty of people who believe they’ve figured it all out—how to save humanity, how to establish the correct rules once and for all. 3/

aka: people telling other people what to do ness

Whether it’s Hobbes designing Leviathan or Thiel designing seasteads, the fantasy is the same: perfect systems, unchanging rules, problems solved forever. 4/

perpetuating the same song.. the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world.. of not-us ness.. of part\ial ness.. [again].. for (blank)’s sake..

And it always, without exception, ends the same way. Gulags. Surveillance states. Bureaucratic nightmares where human imagination gets crushed under the weight of someone else’s brilliant plan. 5/

cancerous distraction ness et al..