Coalition & Infrastructure

Posted April 1, 2026 by Maja Kuzmanović, Justin Pickard, and Nik Gaffney

A Thing-o-Matic 3D printer on a table behind a microphone, with vague outlines of people standing behind and in front of the table an arm pointing downwards; underneath the arm is a partially visible hand holding a glass of wine.

What if reimagining technology starts not with better tools, but with how we organise and gather?

A set of brown five cardboard banners placed on the floor of an interior room, with colourful handwritten messages in capital letters, reading; trans*feminists! Do crimes!; Abundantly operating within limits; International Trans*feminist Digital Depletion

In a conversation with Kate Rich, moving between bug reports, bylaws, and spell‑making, TITiPI – The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest – works through their experiment in instituting otherwise. They rethink what institutions are for, and what kinds of life they make possible. What do budgets, servers, and contracts become when shaped by abolitionist commitments, radical kinship, and elastic solidarities?

https://anarchive.fo.am/silver/technology_in_the_public_interest/

An overhead shot of a big messy table top with a Reprap self replicating 3D printer being constructed by two people, both with their hands inside the half constructed printer; on the left side of the printer is a light grey computer, a monitor, a keyboard

“Community and Coalition‑Building” follows a different thread: how formats for gathering travel, and what happens when they are remade in transit – picked up, compressed, decompressed, and adapted by people with their own infrastructures, constraints, and ways of working. It treats coalition as a design question, less a matter of shared ideology than of carefully tuned starting conditions that keep rooms open to unexpected participants and practices.

https://anarchive.fo.am/silver/community_and_coalition_building/

11 people standing in a field; two people looking at the sky, six people looking at connected electronic parts of the 'earth computer'; one person is filming using a handheld video camera and another person holding a microphone; in the middle of the frame

Both texts find politics in the operational layer – how things are run, hosted, configured, and maintained – and both find something worth celebrating there: the ongoing, careful, sometimes joyful work of making and tending infrastructure for collective life.

Created: 02 Apr 2026 / Updated: 02 Apr 2026

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