Our work, memory, relationships, social worlds, personal archives, and cultural integrity at-large are critically endangered by the commercial systems that masquerade as ‘social’ networks. A platform like Instagram is distinctly sinister in its behavioral design built around comparison logics and surface-level engagement, which in-turn function as a one-way ticket to relational corrosion. “Intro to the Kinternet” is a 7-week summer school/cohort intended to serve as a counter-intervention against platform co-dependency:
Over 7 weeks (every Saturday from 20 June - 1 Aug), we will move through a cycle of Counter-Algorithmic Relational Exercises, or CARE Protocols: guided practices for studying and shifting our relationships to attention, memory, visibility, and overall sociocultural health amidst a heightening landscape of artificial relational debris.
• This sliding-scale Redistr.OS program enables The Kinternet's relational rehab logic to extend into material reciprocity infrastructure.
Our work, memory, relationships, social worlds, personal archives, and cultural integrity at-large are critically endangered by the commercial systems that masquerade as ‘social’ networks. A platform like Instagram is distinctly sinister in its behavioral design built around comparison logics and surface-level engagement, which in-turn function as a one-way ticket to relational corrosion. “Intro to the Kinternet” is a 7-week summer school/cohort intended to serve as a counter-intervention against platform co-dependency:
Over 7 weeks (every Saturday from 20 June - 1 Aug), we will move through a cycle of Counter-Algorithmic Relational Exercises, or CARE Protocols: guided practices for studying and shifting our relationships to attention, memory, visibility, and overall sociocultural health amidst a heightening landscape of artificial relational debris.
• This sliding-scale Redistr.OS program enables The Kinternet's relational rehab logic to extend into material reciprocity infrastructure.
