The group aims to amplify and extend the work that is already being done to push back against the co-optation of education by technology companies, and to bring the insights from a generation of critical tech research, advocacy and organizing to bear on this specific struggle.  

Through this collective, we hope to: 

• build a community of solidarity and resistance practice 
• amplify the reach of members’ work to colleagues across geographies  and disciplines
• create opportunities for resource-sharing and collaborative inquiry 
• establish and pursue a shared vision of education that is not bounded by  algorithmic logics but shaped through collective humanist goals. 

The initial work of the Library of Babel Group will be hosted by the Center on Privacy &  Technology at Georgetown Law. To join, sign up for the listserv here: lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/assembly 

To get a sense of what the Library of Babel Group is about, read this open letter coordinated by Miriam Reynoldson and Melanie Dusseau, and check out The Looming, a zine created and edited by Katie Conrad.

*“The Library of Babel” is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges which is about, among other things, the dangers of “words without thoughts.”