Reclaim Agency is a call to arms against the allure of seductive technologies, emphasizing the importance of individual autonomy and critical engagement in the digital age. This phrase was inspired by a two-part series called 📝Authoritarian Technology written by 📝Judy Estrin, which examines how modern tools and platforms can subtly influence or erode personal agency. Across its two parts, Attention! and Reclaiming Control, Estrin argues that this power is reinforced less through force than through silence and compliance, and that the first step toward reclaiming lost agency is simply to pay attention. The concept underscores a collective need to identify and resist technologies that undermine independent thought or behavior, promoting conscious interaction and ethical design principles. It applies the psychological idea of a 📝Sense of Agency, the felt experience of authoring one's own actions, to how people relate to their tools, and sits alongside the broader project of digital 📝sovereignty.

Contexts

• 🏷️#our-domains (reclaimagency.com, redirects here)
• 🏷️#our-domains (reclaim.agency, redirects here)
• 🏷️#museum-of-domains (See: 📝Museum of Domains)