My book "Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America" comes out next Tuesday, September 24 via @mitpress! 📣

There's been a ton of interest in this book among academics and organizers already.

So I'm excited to share a PDF of the first chapter (uncorrected proofs) with you today!

aschrock.com/wp-content/upl… The book takes you from Code for America's early days, rife with technocratic efforts like Fellowships, through the story of the more democratic Brigades (and why they failed), ending with design and unionization efforts.

In many ways, it's a story of organizational evolution, and how tech-forward organizations can change, even as they struggle with what they retain from their past.