Permacomputing: A Decentralized, Anti-Capitalist Approach to Computing
2025-03-03
Permacomputing is a community and concept challenging the environmental and societal impacts of current computing. Inspired by permaculture, it aims for resilient and regenerative computer and network technologies. It's not a tech solution but an anti-capitalist political project incorporating anarchism, decoloniality, intersectional feminism, post-Marxism, degrowth, and ecologism. Permacomputing requires significant rethinking, rebuilding, and technical design, encouraging a collective and radical reimagining of computational culture. There's no single 'permacomputing kit'; instead, it's an invitation to build something new.