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Informatics of the Oppressed

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An inquiry into the rich history of radical experiments to reorganize information.

Informatics of the Oppressed Rodrigo Ochigame Algorithms of oppression have been around for a long time. So have radical projects to dismantle them and build emancipatory alternatives. How did you end up reading this text? If you’re reading it online, you may have clicked a link in an algorithmically generated list of recommendations or search results. Or maybe a friend sent you the link—after finding it in an algorithmically generated list. Whatever the chain of events that brought you here, it likely involved a system of information retrieval. Such systems select a handful of choices from bi

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