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Benoit Dillet

@benoitdillet.bsky.social
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Researching technology and political theory, Senior Lecturer @UniBath

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Benoit Dillet @benoitdillet.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I really enjoyed co-writing this blog piece for the excellent The Polyphony! With @drsophiah.bsky.social we discuss what roles affects have in the current data-driven climate politics. thepolyphony.org/2026/07/06/b...
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Beyond Climate Data: The Role of Climate Affects in Politicising Climate Change
Benoit Dillet and Sophia Hatzisavvidou examine the role that climate data plays in overlooking and depoliticising lived experiences of climate anxiety.
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Benoit Dillet @benoitdillet.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Happy to share this short co-authored (with Anaïs Nony) commentary on the project of general technology and the so-called transcendental turn in continental philosophy of technology. rdcu.be/fiGff
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General Technology for a Multitude of Worlds: Towards a Non-dogmatic Philosophy of Technology
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 01/04/2026
www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this
Highlighted section of the Copilot ToS which says "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Something Kevin’s recent pieces have flagged for me is the sneaky veil of ideological compression involved around “AI” in critical discourse and not merely in the obvious hype cycle.
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Benoit Dillet @benoitdillet.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I am looking forward to discussing later today my new co-authored book (Transition Imaginaries: Contested Temporalities, Affective Politics, and Decolonial Technology) as part of this excellent webinar series. See below details if interested
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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Join us for another online seminar in the Weather, Climate & Health IMH theme series. Dr @benoitdillet.bsky.social (Bath) will talk on "Overcoming the sad affects of the energy transition" (w/ Sophia Hatzisavvidou), further marking their new book ("Transition Imaginaries"). Free registration ⬇️
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Overcoming the sad affects of the energy transition
Join us for an instalment of the Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme's online talk series.
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Benoit Dillet @benoitdillet.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
💥 Really happy to see Transition Imaginaries published online 💥 In this book, @drsophiah.bsky.social and I critically question the affective attachments and political conceptions of technology in current projects of energy transition. (Published with Open Access) doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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Transition Imaginaries
Cambridge Core - International Relations and International Organisations - Transition Imaginaries
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Benoit Dillet @benoitdillet.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
💥 Really happy to see Transition Imaginaries published online 💥 In this book, @drsophiah.bsky.social and I critically question the affective attachments and political conceptions of technology in current projects of energy transition. (Published with Open Access) doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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Transition Imaginaries
Cambridge Core - International Relations and International Organisations - Transition Imaginaries
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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
New Special Issue! New Special Issue on Eco-emotions from guest editors Mihaela Mihai and Danielle Celermajer. environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/editorial-an...
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Special Issue on Eco-emotions, Vol 35, Issue 1 out now – Environmental Politics Journal
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Benoit Dillet @benoitdillet.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I cannot wait for this beauty to come out in the new few weeks 🔥🔥 I am really proud of all the work that has gone into this small book. I enjoyed collaborating with @drsophiah.bsky.social and witnessing the synergy we produced www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Benoit Dillet @benoitdillet.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
While the global elites are busy ignoring climate change, there is a shared sense of shame at the state of our damaged planet. See below my new article (open access) on this if you’re interested 🌏 Any comments / responses welcome
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 28/04/2025
Is Starmer’s Labour far right? This question sounds absurd, but today, it is not only necessary but urgent to ask for anyone who still cares about democracy My thoughts on @reacpolrn.bsky.social reacpol.net/starmer-far-...
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Article: Is Starmer's Labour far right? (Aurelien Mondon) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Aurelien Mondon explores whether the Labour government under Starmer can be considered far right
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Benoit Dillet @benoitdillet.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
“We are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species. The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death.”
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
📢New Blog📢 Our member, @benoitdillet.bsky.social, discusses the rise of technofascism and the role of Artificial Intelligence in enabling new forms of tyranny. reacpol.net/technofascism/
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Blog: Technofascism and the AI Stage of Late Capitalism (Benoit Dillet) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
Blog post by Benoit Dillet, member of the RPRN, first published on the Blog of the American Philosophical Association (APA).
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Benoit Dillet @benoitdillet.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
“Technofascism seized power by promoting a familiar image of technology rooted in an innovation-centric history—that is, predominantly white, male and wealthy.” Republished by the Greek collective Void Network voidnetwork.gr/2025/03/11/t...
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Technofascism and the AI Stage of Late Capitalism | Void Network
Why call this mode of governing technofascism? Fascists have swapped their black boots and black shirts for keyboards, but their misogyny and their aggressive culture persist.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 18/03/2025
at this stage, there's a robust body of work exposing the unreliability and limitations of llms but what will it take for governments, businesses, and other large institutions to rid critical social infrastructure off llms
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Benoit Dillet @benoitdillet.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
“Technofascism seized power by promoting a familiar image of technology rooted in an innovation-centric history—that is, predominantly white, male and wealthy.” Republished by the Greek collective Void Network voidnetwork.gr/2025/03/11/t...
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Technofascism and the AI Stage of Late Capitalism | Void Network
Why call this mode of governing technofascism? Fascists have swapped their black boots and black shirts for keyboards, but their misogyny and their aggressive culture persist.
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Benoit Dillet @benoitdillet.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I wrote a short article on technofascism and the importance of naming our present conjuncture: blog.apaonline.org/2025/03/10/t...
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Technofascism and the AI Stage of Late Capitalism
Technologies produce disorientation Since the release of ChatGPT 3.5 in November 2022 and the extraordinary AI hype that has followed in the last two years, we have witnessed a repositioning of Big Te...
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Benoit Dillet @benoitdillet.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I wrote a short article on technofascism and the importance of naming our present conjuncture: blog.apaonline.org/2025/03/10/t...
blog.apaonline.org
Technofascism and the AI Stage of Late Capitalism
Technologies produce disorientation Since the release of ChatGPT 3.5 in November 2022 and the extraordinary AI hype that has followed in the last two years, we have witnessed a repositioning of Big Te...
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
“The US of AI,” public draft of a talk given yesterday at Princeton. drive.google.com/file/d/1O2qk...
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Benoit Dillet @benoitdillet.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
@earthliberationart.bsky.social @reacpolrn.bsky.social
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
"The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century" Karl Marx 1871
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Benoit Dillet @benoitdillet.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Excellent essay by R. H. Lossin on our contemporary culture/aesthetics of technofascism www.e-flux.com/criticism/65...
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Benoit Dillet @benoitdillet.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This is hilarious and frightening too… the tech oligarchs will now cry to ask for more money from the US state
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Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley
The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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Maxime Combes @maximecombes.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"Petite ferme", détournement du célèbre rap "Petit frère" d'I AM par la @confpaysanne.bsky.social Ici on aime bien. Et vous ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LKr...
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Petite ferme !
YouTube video by Confédération paysanne
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Giorgos Katsambekis @gkatsambekis.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is incredibly worrying & dangerous. Looks like a clear indication of how large social media platforms are now actively becoming a part of an #authoritarian shift in US politics & beyond.
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
“About 30.6 million low-income people are exposed to AI-related decision-making through the prior authorization processes in private health insurance.” www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines...
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Inescapable AI — TechTonic Justice
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Benoit Dillet @benoitdillet.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
“Musk has seemingly become the first tech leader to fall down the rabbit hole of radicalisation by his own product” - except he re-designed the political affordances of Twitter, it is not accidental but deliberate. He’s a troll that managed to escape the confines of Twitter on.ft.com/40mRyAq
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How a handful of X accounts took Elon Musk ‘down the rabbit hole’ on UK politics
Tech billionaire’s posts about grooming gangs scandal have elevated issue
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 07/01/2025
Jean-Marie Le Pen died knowing his far-right politics have been successfully mainstreamed in France A few thoughts on mainstreaming and the need to look beyond the Le Pen if we are to understand and address the resurgence of reactionary politics theconversation.com/jean-marie-l...
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Jean-Marie Le Pen died knowing his extremist far-right politics have been successfully mainstreamed in France
The former leader of the National Front has died, aged 96.
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Benoit Dillet @benoitdillet.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I can’t recommend this research visualisation resource enough!
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Benoit Dillet @benoitdillet.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Great article by Emily Bell on the nonsensical billionaire-sponsored “AI-powered “bias meter”“ that will be on on LA Times articles from January. shorturl.at/G86o5
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Can billionaire media moguls be trusted in Trump’s America? | Emily Bell
The new gatekeepers use ‘trust’ to discredit the press and talk about removing bias with AI - distracting us from their own shift to the right
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Cédric Durand @cedricdurand.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The case for a public digital stack NOW !
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Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
$104bn will be spent in this year alone searching for, and exploiting, off-shore oil and gas possibilities. It's the highest level since 2016 and further proof that there is no such thing as a green capitalist transition. www.ft.com/content/5c49...
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Offshore oil is back. At what cost?
Years after one of the worst spills in history, companies in search of new discoveries are drilling even deeper into the seabed
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Benoit Dillet @benoitdillet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A starter pack on critical data studies!
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