Tech Nightmares, Illusions of Control

Sunday, November 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM to Wednesday, November 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM

Human Resources, Los Angeles

Hosted by clara lópez menéndez, *Tech Nightmares, Illusions of Control* is a 2-day study on contemporary and historical critical perspectives on the effects and implications of our reliance on technological devices, screens, data management systems, and the internet have for our forms of socializing, governmentality and participation, and therefore our sense of politics and the self. Two sessions: Sunday November 23, Wednesday November 26, 6:30 - 9PM Suggested Readings: [humdog: pandora's box](https://gist.github.com/kolber/2131643" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener) [Richard Barbrook & Andy Cameron: The Californian Ideology ](https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener) [Deleuze: Postscript on the society of control](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener) [Kimberle Crenshaw & Gary Peller: Reel Time / Real Justice ](https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3873&context=faculty_scholarship" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener) [Vilém Flusser: Into the Universe of Technical Images](https://www.readings.teaching-documents.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/vilem-flusser-into-the-universe-of-technical-images-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener) (whole book pdf, recommended: "To Touch," "To Signify," & "To Scatter") Also this [video by Safiya Umoja Noble on Algorithms of Oppression](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4xlOVgsDZM" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener) HRLA Studies –– Free of cost –– No RSVP –– Come share and take some home Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live