Pepper Scotch Tenets

These seven principles inform our programming decisions

Here at Pepper Scotch:

  1. We believe in the material forces of imagination and artistic creation to conjure liberatory futures.
  2. We recognize that slavery is the threshold of the political world [1].
  3. We recognize computing as a discipline that has existed long before and will exist long after the byte.
  4. We recognize that the fecundity of life does not exist in opposition to technology, and that technology is not the fated antagonist of the earth’s ecology.
  5. We recognize the term ‘technological progress’ as an excuse for the environmental wreckage caused by imperialism and corporatism.
  6. We acknowledge that there is a knowing different from the measuring, cataloging and quantifying of material phenomena.
  7. And lastly, we refuse. We refuse to succumb to the physical and metaphysical nihilism the current digital paradigm has wrought. We refuse to live in fear of dystopic technological fantasias that monied misanthropes declare are inevitable. We refuse to be afraid of obsolescence because we refuse to be afraid of life. We refuse.


[1] From Jared Sexton's "The Vel of Slavery" 2013.