Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures
Keynote SeaGL 2026
How did we build community for, with, and around FOSS technologies? Why does community-building matter now more than ever? In this talk, I will present a book project where I respond to these questions. As I will demonstrate, one of the most powerful things we accomplished as a community was to build common circuits for the circulation of people, projects, and technologies that played an “infrastructural” role. Given the infrastructural nature of FOSS projects, they have become not only invisible but also vulnerable to all sorts of enclosures (including the newest ones with the rise of commercial AI). Join me in this talk to discuss how we can respond to the present technopolitical challenges and thrive as a collective of FOSS collectives.
Presenters
Luis Felipe Rosado Murillo
Luis Felipe R. Murillo is assistant professor of Anthropology at University of Notre Dame. His work has been primarily dedicated to the study of the “commons” in science and technology. With an emphasis on FOSS-based tools and infrastructures, he has been dedicated to the empirical study of technopolitical projects that are designed to respond to social, technical, and environmental concerns. He started his trajectory in a LUG (Tchelinux) in the late 1990s and worked as a member of the organizing team of the International Free Software Forum (FISL) for many years.