Post by @adamgreenfield@social.coop

I’m tinkering with doing a run of zines exploring how different autonomous and self-organized community functions can be made ultra lightweight and cargobike-portable: the School at Hand, the Station at Hand and the Clinic at Hand.

My polestars here, as they have been, are raumlaborberlin, Luca Weste’s work on latterday pirate radio, Cassie Thornton’s Hologram, Paulo Freire and bell hooks, and inevitably and for all that I have beef with him, Ivan Illich. And the intent is simply to demonstrate what mobile community infrastructure might look like when built along these lines.

Adam Greenfield

@adamgreenfield@social.coop 3 hours ago

(And, of course, packaging that information as “tek,” in the spirit of this: https://lifepod.transistor.fm/s1/6)

Lifepod

Lifepod | S01e06 An Ode to Tek

Tek! What is it, where does it come from, and what on Earth does that goofy “k” imply? On this episode of Lifepod, I consider what this little chunk of language has taught me about how knowledge is...

Adam Greenfield

@adamgreenfield@social.coop 2 hours ago

I guess this is why I get so frustrated when people leap to “let’s build an app” or “let’s build a platform” (let alone “let’s build a blockchain”). There’s no technology in the School at Hand any more elaborate than a cargo-bike geartrain or a speaker – the technology resides in the way people come together to educate themselves about a matter of concern.