LOOMING is a zine dedicated to exploring the impacts of technology, particularly digital technologies. Our title is intended to invoke a few things: the human-scale technology of hand looms that have been used for millennia to weave textiles; the power-looms that displaced skilled workers during the early industrial era; the sense of looming threat in an age of unregulated Big Tech growth; and the etymological link between textile, technology, and text.

 

Our position is not anti-technology. We are in favor of technologies that are created and used with informed consent and that support human flourishing. But we don’t buy the hype.