What is it about?
Luddism was a movement of textile makers who broke machines to contest their deteriorating working conditions. In this paper, we attune to their "unmaking" practices to describe lessons for our contemporary computing regimes.
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Why is it important?
Designing for social justice might at times require taking away certain objects or harms without imperatives to make new things. Luddism teaches us the complicated, laborious, and fractious nature of such acts and the moral dilemmas that might arise when trying to seek emancipation from certain harmful conditions.
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This page is a summary of: Unmaking as Emancipation: Lessons and Reflections from Luddism, April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3544548.3581412.
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