techne.social

social contract:

one email.when there’s something worth saying, we write once. not a newsletter, not a drip.
then it’s gone.after that email goes out, we delete your address. there is no list to stay on.
nobody else gets it.never shared, never sold, never handed to “partners.”

our status quo: technofeudal terms. technocapital-designed technology. and all that comes with it:

attention
for convenience

data
for connection

defaults
set by whoever profits from them

power
over consent

net: erosion of technique (a form of techne)
techne (τέχνη) is the old word for craft. what we called technology before it had a business model.
somewhere along the way the tools started making us. we scroll when we meant to read. we check when we meant to rest.
studying techne is about instigating a renegotiation of the social contract with technology. the deal none of us signed, but all of us live under.
people, not platforms, should write the terms.