One of the greatest cultural successes of 4chan nazis (et al) was setting the frame where the modal technopolitics opinion is that not associating with nazis is a moral weakness that should be corrected by associating with more nazis
This is also a link between mainstream technopolitics and the far right. Non-consent tech (as exemplified by normative data surveillance and resale and the click-through user agreement) are an expression of the will to exercise power over other people in instrumentalized form.
This is an excellent discussion, a thought that I’ve had nebulously that is crystallised very well here - the fascist risk of AI and the need for a deeper anti fascist technopolitics podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
Resisting AI: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-aiDan's website: www.danmcquillan.orgDurations Festival: https://publicrecords.nyc/events/durations
My new piece for the Scottish Left Review as part of their technopolitics special issue: 'A Just Transition Means Resisting AI' scottishleftreview.scot/a-just-trans...
New book review: Pastor on Shokooh Valle, Firuzeh: _In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South_. Stanford University Press, 2023. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20040199...
My talk at The 2nd Ecology of AI Workshop, covering technopolitics, resisting AI, ecology and decomputing www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCnS...
Dr Dan McQuillan Talk Titled “Resisting AI” for The 2nd Ecology of AI Hybrid-Workshop 2024 @ HHAI 2024 Conference, Malmo, Sweden.
I’m happy to share that the wonderful conversation I had with Eylül İşcen on “Frictional Computing” has just been published in the Counter-N project. If interested: doi.org/10.18452/29057#Frictions#MediaArchaeology#MediaHistory#Transindividuation#TechnoPolitics#Cybernetics#CyberSyn#Chile
The Hacking of Culture and the Creation of Socio-Technical Debt Kim Córdova and Bruce Schneier Very good article, worth your time. This also has a post with good comments on HN. #technosocial#academicchatter#technopolitics […]
We need a proper public discussion about academic freedom, outside influence, and universities as corporations. No surprise that the people losing their jobs over the politicization of platforms are alt-academics, on soft money, who study tech corps’ products. Technopolitics as governmentality.
