Geographer @UoSGeogEnv. Research: refusal, tech, cities. Book: Techno-Negative (@UMinnPress). Films: Breached/Machines in Flames (@Destruct_Intl).
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Today is the release date for ✨Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine 🕳️
The book traces the long histories of technological resistance, and offers a source of inspiration for those looking for a new tech politics.
Get in touch for reviews/events/talks/etc
Spoke to NPR about why the "AI agents going rogue" narrative misses the actual threats AI is posing: environmental, military, social, etc. Also: why the "look how powerful the AI is" plays into the hands of the AI companies. npr.org/2026/09/13/nx-s1-596…
Rather excited about this 💫 From January onwards, I will start a five year research project investigating how AI is altering the nature and features of authoritarianism.
More info about the project, and team hiring plans, coming soon.
Congratulations to @ThomasDekeyser, who has received an @ERC_Research ERC Starting Grant to support his research studying the close connections between AI and authoritarian politics.
Find out more: southampton.ac.uk/news/2026/…
ALT Dr Thomas DeKeyser
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@ThomasDekeyser shows how people have long recognized and resisted the machine as a violent, sometimes deadly force.
Visit our stand in person at #RGSIBG26 or find us online ⬇️
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“We have a world of pleasures to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.”
RIP RAOUL VANEIGEM (1934-2026)
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Ob Roboter oder künstliche Intelligenz: Technologie provoziert Widerstand. Der Forscher Thomas Dekeyser hat darüber ein Buch geschrieben. Er erklärt, warum schon die alten Griechen ihren eigenen Erfindungen nicht trauten und Marx Laternen zerschlagen hat. nzz.ch/wissenschaft/soziale-…
Interview with @libe on techno-negativity, moving beyond reformism, and imagining new tech politics. With thanks to @NastasiaHdj for the conversation.
liberation.fr/idees-et-debat…
Really enjoyed this conversation with @parismarx for his podcast, Tech Won't Save Us. We discuss abolitionism, Luddism, (post)humanism, 1980s computer bombers, and the need to think tech politics beyond the traps of reformism or accelerationism.
open.spotify.com/show/3UhsI7…
In a radical turn of events, director of a Google AI research tank finds that AI *is* intelligent after all.
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1/🧵EXCLUSIVE: @BylineTimes's six-month investigation into Reform UK's policy chief: a secret donation from Peter Thiel, Thiel's life-changing offers to Cambridge scholars, and a far-right, theocratic student recruitment drive in breach of safeguarding
bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p…
I have five left-over copies of TECHNO-NEGATIVE that I'd like to hand out to UK-based early career / PhD students who are interested in reading the book.
Drop a comment here if that's you and I'll randomly pick 5 people from here and the other places where I'm posting this.
Really not convinced by the argument that's surfacing that celebrates AI for its presumed inhumanism (and denounces anti-AI as reactionary humanism). I see AI as the extension & culmination of an increasingly violent humanism. Currently writing on this, but some early ideas: 1/4
Tech is often not the emancipatory 'blurring' of the human & the nonhuman celebrated by posthumanists, but the introduction of new, more violent demarcations of the human from its presumed others. i.e. dismantling the liberal human subject only to re-assert it more hideously. 4/4
Anyway, read Sylvia Wynter, folks.
(And once you're done with that (impossible), check out my paper paper on tech and ontological onticide which is also a chapter in my book TECHNO-NEGATIVE journals.sagepub.com/doi/epd…)
"Fate is never simply what befalls us; it is the consequence of what we have done. [Communism] is simply the abolition of fate, the movement through which we undo the illusion of necessity."
Ray Brassier's *Fatelessness* finally looks to be officially forthcoming. April 2027 waterstones.com/book/fateles…
To my new followers, if you want to get an accurate sense of what my book that was misread and instrumentalised by Vox, check out the book review in the New Yorker.
newyorker.com/culture/infini…
Or check out my interview with Rest of World, or an excerpt of the book in LitHub.
restofworld.org/2026/techno-…
lithub.com/technophobe-a-sho…
As the academic whose book is cited multiple times in this article, I want to make it clear: the data center revolt is great and we need more of it. (Getting a little sick of journalists purposefully misreading my arguments)
The data center revolt is a symptom of our political failure on AI. vox.com/future-perfect/49035…
