permacomputing

Permacomputing is a philosphy of computing with focus on material and cultural longevity of the social practice of computation. the point at which you intercept the computer in its supply chain. lifetime analysis the protected state sector of the economy, through the military system, domestically in the US is a device for compelling the public for subsidizing the high technology industy, and to provide a state-guaranteed market for high-technology waste production.

"The future is but the obsolete in reverse" Nabokov

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__ha(Computational Carbon Intensity, cci) paper summary back up the intuition that computers are, by their material reality, impossible to manufacture in any loca sense their supply chain is deaply globalized in response to the question of autonomy: i don't agree that permacomputing is about autonomy the metaphor of the camper off-grid is really a misconception of what permacomputing can be this is a very individualistic mindset permapublishing is not about producing our own computer, same as permacomputing is not about building your own computer. it's more about: how many resources do we need? This makes me think of Oliver Bertrand « surfaces utiles », who is a publisher, printed on the edges of a book, making zines that could fit on the edges of a print plate. "Doing things in the edges" (beautiful phrase!)