Our take: Can a digital infrastructure ever be truly autonomous from the systems it seeks to challenge? In this article, Cécile Chevalier, Irene Fubara-Manuel, and Sharon Webb explore this question through an experiment in building a feminist server using Raspberry Pi computers. From hardware shortages to institutional dependencies and barriers to technical knowledge, their experience reveals the practical contradictions of pursuing technological autonomy. Drawing on queer phenomenology, the authors suggest that care, collective learning, and intentional slowness offer alternative ways of building and maintaining digital infrastructures.
Editors’ Choice: The (Im)possibility of Autonomous Feminist Infrastructures
