Abstract: A poorly researched, selective, biased and yet unfinished case for thinking beyond technology. Arguing that non-conformance is required to monitor and reign in technology’s impact on our lives. From a young age, I was partial to non-conformance. One main factor in it, I believe, was the Third Reich narrative. From 1933-1945, the overwhelming majority […]
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The Bureau for Counterculture is everything.
Of sorts. Everything that’s missing. Everything that went under, when technology silently took over.
A haven for the other side.
A fiction factory.
A museum of non-conformance.
A design agency for what it could be like.
A hypothetical member of the International Federation for internal freedom.
The Bureau isn’t retro. The Bureau isn’t against technology per se. The Bureau is about how to combine ethical and edgy, how to live freedom in a way that doesn’t incidentally exploit other people of this or a coming generation. The Bureau wants a system that works for everyone.
The Bureau is there to create spaces where free spirits can breathe now and in future, no matter how mind-intrusive technology might become. It’s there for people who want to build and live in such spaces.
The Bureau is under construction.
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