Human-Computer Insurrection: Notes on an Anarchist HCI

Understand

The HCI community has worked to expand and improve our consideration of the societal implications of our work and our corresponding responsibilities.

• Despite this increased engagement, HCI continues to lack an explicitly articulated politic, which we argue re-inscribes and amplifies systemic oppression.
• In this paper, we set out an explicit political vision of an HCI grounded in emancipatory autonomy - an anarchist HCI, aimed at dismantling all oppressive systems by mandating suspicion of and a reckoning with imbalanced distributions of power.
• We outline some of the principles and accountability mechanisms that constitute an anarchist HCI.