otherwise (othr.wse) is an orientation, place, and direction of study that critically considers how humans put their skepticisms, concerns, refusals, and resistances to emerging technologies into practice to create space for imagining the world and the future otherwise.

otherwise | oth·er·wise

  1. : a different way, circumstance, or condition

  2. : “infinite alternatives to what is”¹

  3. : a break or divergence from the expected, normed, or considered

  4. : a refusal of what is

  5. : an insistence, belief, or knowing

focuses

  • alternative and oppositional approaches to artificial intelligence

  • critical artificial literacies

  • artificial intelligence praxis

  • organizing and resistance movements against techno-plutocracy

methods

  • youth participatory action research (ypar)

  • elder participatory action research (epar)

  • (digital) ethnography

  • critical discourse and media analysis

  • theory building

  • organization

¹ Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility by Ashon Crawley (p. 2)