{"id":4342,"date":"2025-10-15T12:20:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/?page_id=4342"},"modified":"2026-03-25T18:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:08:04","slug":"the-library-of-babel-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/education\/the-library-of-babel-group\/","title":{"rendered":"The Library of Babel Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4439 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/10\/image-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/10\/image-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/10\/image.png 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>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.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Through this collective, we hope to:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">build a community of solidarity and resistance practice\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">amplify the reach of members\u2019 work to colleagues across geographies\u00a0 and disciplines<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">create opportunities for resource-sharing and collaborative inquiry\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">establish and pursue a shared vision of education that is not bounded by\u00a0 algorithmic logics but shaped through collective humanist goals.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The initial work of the Library of Babel Group will be hosted by the Center on Privacy &amp;\u00a0 Technology at Georgetown Law. To join, <a href=\"https:\/\/a.lists.mayfirst.org\/mailman3\/postorius\/lists\/assembly.lists.libraryofbabelgroup.org\/\">sign up for the listserv<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To get a sense of what the Library of Babel Group is about, read this <a href=\"https:\/\/openletter.earth\/an-open-letter-from-educators-who-refuse-the-call-to-adopt-genai-in-education-cb4aee75\">open letter<\/a> signed by many members of the group, and check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.loomingthezine.com\/&amp;source=gmail-imap&amp;ust=1768584104000000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3SeohfRrGpsl3RofN5zn7Y\">LOOMING<\/a>, a zine conceived and published by one of the group&#8217;s founding members and with contributions by several other members.<\/p>\n<p>*\u201cThe Library of Babel\u201d is a <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/politicalshakespeares\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/226\/2015\/12\/Borges-The-Library-of-Babel.pdf\">short story<\/a> by Jorge Luis Borges which is about, among other things, the dangers of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/shakespeare.mit.edu\/hamlet\/full.html#:~:text=Words%20without%20thoughts\">words without thoughts<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15769,"featured_media":0,"parent":40,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-4342","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15769"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4342"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5091,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4342\/revisions\/5091"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}