Week 5 Lecture - Technosolutionism

Lisa Yan, September 25th, 2025

Materials

• Slides

CS 195 Readings

• Required Os Keyes, Jevan Hutson, Meredith Durbin. A Mulching Proposal. CHI. 2019.
• Required NPR. Op-Ed: There's An App For Everything, And That's A Problem. 2013.
• Optional Ruha Benjamin. Race After Technology: Introduction.
• Optional Jimmy Wu. Optimize What?. Commune. 2019.
• Optional Fred Turner. Don’t Be Evil: Fred Turner on Utopias, Frontiers, and Brogrammers. 2017.
• Optional Ian Tucker. Evgeny Morozov: We are abandoning all the checks and balances. The Guardian. 2013.

CS H195 Readings

• Required Ruha Benjamin. Race After Technology: Introduction.
• Required Mireille Hildebrandt. Chapter 1: Introduction: Diana’s onlife world. 2015.