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LA COLMENA

NO THOUGHT LEADERSHIP.

JUST THINKING.

LINES OF FLIGHT

A pause to think about what
we’re building ––
and whether we should.

LINES OF FLIGHT

A pause to think about what
we’re building ––
and whether we should.

We use Technology every day. We see its value.
We’re also troubled by what it’s doing—to work, to attention, to power, to the way we think.

This is not a contradiction. It’s an honest position.

Lines of Flight is a space for those who refuse to choose between technological enthusiasm and technological critique. Who believe that building the future requires questioning it. Who understand that design is never neutral—it encodes values, distributes power, and shapes what becomes possible.

BELIEFS

1.

Every system is a map of someone’s desires. The question is: whose?

2.

Optimization is not a natural law. It’s a choice.

3.

Critique is not opposition. It’s a condition for building something worth building.

4.

Design can be a power for good–but only if we take responsibility.

PROVOCATIONS / Short pieces of writing that challenge assumptions.

Ecoanxiety, Ecotechnology and business’ non-binarity

Re-situating technology within an ecological framework

Lines of Flight–Technological Sovereignty

A research project in progress

Ode to the Meta-Sceptical ones

Let’s take the side of tech misfits and disbelievers for once.

DIALOGUES / Conversations worth listening to—voices questioning technology, power, and the futures we’re building.

Reimagining Our Relationship with Digital Tech

By Paris Marx / Tech Won’t Save Us

The Ai Con: How to fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

By Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna

At CES: What AI Means for Creators, Studios, and Platforms

By Joseph Gordon-Levitt / Joe’s Journal