A report on a free boot firmware, Libreboot, and a free GPU driver
for ARM computers, Panfrost; with additional information on coreboot
and Tamil/Lima. Companion publication to : “When we liberate ourselves
we start from the bottom. Introduction to an upcoming report…”

His smarts so great, his senses so little… A cautionary tale for all of
computer science! And, in particular, those computer scientists who see
no moral dilemmas in working for various ‘big tech’ companies, or States.

The following is understood as a contribution toward a field of com-
puter science education : a reflection of 5 months of learning the functional
programming language Haskell; out of which has emerged for us that pro-
gramming languages are ‘just other programs’. This lesson, so important,
is never felt more than in a functional language lik…[Read more]

Unfinished article on Yakov Yurovsky (1878-1938), and the end of a
certain nobility. A mirror to our times, as ever, always.

Tech dogma # 1 : The Great Separation, between the “technical” and the “political”. Documents towards a history.

A collection of previously released articles, that belonged and were
done together. (an intellectual triptych)

New translation of Jacques Le Goff’s Intellectuals in the Middle Ages. (with introduction and critical apparatus)

Collected thoughts on what it means to translate, in preparation for an
upcoming translation. We argue : “In certain songs, we hear our own lyrics.”,
“Translations are reflections of our times, and ourselves – and yourselves.”
and, based on Martha, “She looks away, he looks back.”

Intellectuals in the Middle Ages: birth of a social category, and also
simultaneously discipline. A radical book – important to history like
few are: with this small monograph, Jacques Le Goff created “historical
sociology” or “sociological history”; and liberated countless others.

The analysis of Annunciation, a 15th c. painting of unclear origins,
attributed to either Jan van Eyck, his circle or Petrus Christus, sheds
some light on the characteristics, acts of heroes – their mirror to us.

By liberating others, we liberate ourselves.

In a series of 10 propositions, we form a project to guide the develop-
ment of a (real) computer science, and simultaneously (real) history and
sociology of that same discipline, for us, and for future generations.

Computer science can, and never will be the same again.

A full review of EFF staffers between the years 2001 and 2004, and
their employment history, reveals conflicts of interests with big technology
companies (that have a history of privacy violations). Paired with an
analysis of the political/philosophical positions of key members, including
founders and presidents, this study highlights wider…[Read more]

Memories of Paul Veyne.

In this highly influential 1935 text, Jean Cavailles, after describing
the historical sociological characteristics of the so-called “Vienna Circle”,
turns to an analysis of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and
three of its thesis specifically which he considers to be central to the under-
standing of their ideas. Vienna Circl…[Read more]

This review article – a reflection of a reflection – concludes our series
of studies on the social conditions of computer science and technology.
(One further article, currently still being written, will appear.) It is given
here in the hopes that it will create a thousand more new researchers on
these many, varied problems, questions – all o…[Read more]

In his unfinished manuscript, James Baldwin created what can be
considered the premise of a complete and general theory of the re-
lationship between our new media, popular culture particularly, and
the structures of our domination. According to Marx, they who have
power control ideas.
Because, our times are not theirs, though many parallels…[Read more]

In the tradition of topical songs, and the rightful right and obligation of
academics to exercise critic and take position, we render here the life, and
death of Aaron Swartz, reality and fiction altogether (a personal vision). In the
tradition of satirical political observers of times, which are not ours, we accuse
the many cowards that could…[Read more]

The analysis of an SMS sent by a former Director of the IMF serves
as the basis for a wider study on the many ways in which the elites of
our days – be it the “old” of the financial or the “new” ones from the
technological world – successfully define and redefine our language,
and hence our thoughts. In the days of Marx and Engels, the critic…[Read more]