What would an apolitical "permacomputing" look like? The premise is to reduce consumption and conserve resources. It's about recognizing the externalities associated with technology. You can't just do that in a vacuum.
replyIf you just want "MacBook with socketed RAM" there's already other people doing that. You don't need this to be that.
You can recognize externalities and deal with it just fine without abolishing capitalism. See leaded gas or CFCs for example.
reply> I expected this to be a technological movement first with politics snuck in
replyThen you are naive. Everything that is concerned with how people organize themselves, where and how they allocate resources, how they are supposed to make decisions, what values they should uphold etc. is politics.