Operating Systems, Common Sense(s), and Transversal Practice

Abstract

If we think about societies as (regulated by) operating systems of a larger order, what does it take to re-orient the common sense through yet-uncommon senses? This text speculates about error messages as signals of system failure and hinges for systemic transformation, and takes up a collective reading of Kara Keeling’s text ‘Queer OS’ in the early days of the MA Transversal Design to think about rewriting as transversal practice.