Divest
Àrokò Monthly Roundtable #02
In 2026, we're watching the breaking point accelerate, a cultural rupture where authenticity confronts algorithmic perfection, and designers must decide whether to decorate capital or design for human care.
Divest
By divest we mean depriving systems of dehumanization and oppression of influence and power. Divesting from the now creates liberated minds in action. A liberated mind can embrace the joy of limitless possibilities to imagine and create the world as one needs it to be. Equity is a moving target. We strive to identify areas of imbalance to restore harmony.
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Day & Night: The Emerging Aesthetics of New Wave Neo-Luddism
I followed a DJ to a phone-free, clown-themed dance floor and stumbled into a living experiment in neo-Luddism. From luxury dumbphones to sweaty nights off-camera, two aesthetics of opting out are emerging: “luxury low-tech” and “phone-free presence”.
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How Van Newman is Divesting From Big Tech, Artificial Urgency, and the U.S.A.
We spoke to Van Newman about divestment as a practice and a source of joy in an increasingly cruel world.
Design is Circular
Movie Theaters as Modern Underground Railroads: How 'Sinners' Created Freedom Spaces in Plain Sight
For 137 minutes, "Sinners" transforms theaters into Underground Railroad stations—where Black truth flows freely. Darkened spaces become corridors of breath. Tears fall uncensored. And for a moment, liberation exists in plain sight.
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THE STORM THEY NAMED DEMOCRACY
The debut of the “Verses in the Wake” poetry column tears through illusion with lyrical fury. It strips democracy of its costume, revealing empire’s raw face—where ballots bury dreams and language launders violence. This is poetry as reckoning. As resistance.