School
for
Poetic
Computation
The Internet is dead, long live the Internet. Building from the assertion that the Internet as we know it is dying (or already dead) and drawing on the work of prefigurative thinkers as well as key principles of anarchist organizing, this class explores the development of radical imagination strategies for imagining-implementing the "Post-Internet.”
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The Internet is dead, long live the Internet. Frederic Jameson once said that "it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism." In our hyper-capitalistic digital landscape, it can feel easier to imagine the end of the Internet than what might come afterwards. As online spaces become increasingly commercialized, automated, and monopolized, imagining otherwise has never been more critical or urgent.
What would we build if we stopped treating today's Internet as inevitable? Building from the assertion that the Internet as we know it is dying (or already dead), this class draws from radical imagination, prefigurative politics, and anarchist thinkers to ask what might grow in its place. Together, we'll examine how digital spaces shape our relationships, experiment with ways of gathering and making online, and develop strategies for imagining and practicing alternative digital futures.
Rather than designing one definitive Internet of the future, we'll co-create speculative interventions into the present. Through discussion, experimentation, and a final project that can take any form, students will use the practices and tools they already have to imagine what a Post-Internet could be.
This class may be for you if you:
This class may NOT be for you if you:
lee nok'si livingston is a writer, artist, and anarchist.
they/he
Andres Berman is a New York based actor, director, and theater artist.
any/all
Applications open until Applications closed on November 16, 2026.
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For 5 classes, it costs $750 + processing fees, for a one-time payment. We also offer payment plans. Participants can schedule monthly payments of the same amount. First and last payments must be made before the start and end of class. *Processing fees apply for each payment.
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