The Anti-Eviction Lab brings together spatial, racial, and technological justice collective projects with student researchers. Housed at UW and led by Erin McElroy, it prioritizes collaborative knowledge making with groups such as the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. One of its current focuses is Landlord Tech Watch aimed at producing scholarship and popular education materials related to the property technology industry.

Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times was recently published by Duke University Press in early 2024. It explores processes of becoming Silicon Valley in both Romania and the US. By charting how technocapitalist aspirations invoke gentrification, racial dispossession, and anticommunism, this book investigates the mechanisms through which Siliconization cannibalizes socialist-era technocultures, infrastructure, and visions in the name of progress. At the same time, it charts practices of refusing and thus unbecoming Silicon Valley.

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data visualization, critical cartography, digital media, and tool-making collective dedicated to housing justice. With chapters in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, and Los Angeles, the group prioritizes producing collaboratively driven work to empower frontline tenant organizing.

Software is understood as not having a “place,” or having a place that does not matter to the way it functions. “Good software” is software that is supposed to run anywhere without glitches and bugs. Yet there is much more to be done by way of identifying its spatial, historical, and sociotechnical dependencies that extrapolate the digital, having profound connections to histories of dispossession.
This is a collaboration with Luis Felipe R. Murillo and many others!