SUBCORE

  • Device Stewardship — How to maintain long-lived hardware against planned obsolescence.
  • OpSec Mindsets — Principles for personal security without tactical instruction.
  • Jargon & Ritual — Language that binds hacker communities.
  • From Phreaks to Hackers — Generational shifts in underground telecom culture.
  • Plastic Cards & The System — Tracing the materiality of payment networks.
  • Anonymity Personas — The sociology of enduring pseudonyms and reputations.
  • Surveillance Mapping — How to read a city’s sensor topology (theory, not steps).
  • Ghost Networks — Mesh, meshless and offline comms for dissident communities.
  • Lockpicking Culture — Craft, legality and the tinker ethic (non-actionable).
  • The Ethics of Intrusion — When infiltration is protest and when it’s harm.
  • Signal No More — A cultural history of phreaking and telephone resistance.
  • Repairing Broken Systems — Tech projects aimed at restoring cultural infrastructure.