i found permacomputing a while ago through uxn, which i had in turn discovered due to word-of-mouth marketingTM. i gradually became sucked into it immediately because it aligned with my core beliefs, however i gradually found out that permacomputing.net's description of permacomputing had slowly drifted away from how i personally think of it, and into something with far more of an emphasis on the politics of it.
With that said, permacomputing is an anti-capitalist political project. It is driven by several strands of anarchism, decoloniality, intersectional feminism, post-marxism, degrowth, ecologism.
while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more:
| recycling | inventing |
| standalone systems | dependant systems |
| diverse implementations of one standard | diverse standards with one implementation |
| designing for degredation | designing for extension |
| a system on the scale of one person | a system on the scale of a large team |
| free software/hardware | proprietary software/hardware |
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