NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks University of Southampton's Thomas Dekeyser about worries AI is becoming fatally out of control.

Souvent caricaturée en phobie technologique, la «techno-négativité» s’inspire de l’histoire des résistances technologiques pour proposer un répertoire d’action à l’ère des IA génératives, démontre Thomas Dekeyser.

The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at Cambridge University. Why?

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A radical history of technology told through acts of resistance, not progressThe history of technology is often told as a history of progress, moving optimis...

The School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE), in association with Mansfield College, seeks an outstanding Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography to provide cover during Professor Derek McCormack’s period as Head of School.

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Die Maschinen dienen heute den Wenigen. Wer sie ablehnt, gilt als rückständig. Thomas Dekeyser hält Widerstand für notwendig: Ist wieder mal Zeit für Maschinenstürmen?

Le rejet massif de l’IA aux États-Unis s’inscrit dans l’histoire d’un concept : la techno-négativité.

From the techne pessimists of Ancient Greece to the computer firebombers of the Information Age, here's a look at the long—and fruitful—legacy of refusing the machine.

Sarah Sharma is Professor of Media Theory and Director of the Institute for Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto. She is author of In the Meantime: Tempor…

Our hatred of social media or of artificial intelligence is not some novel phenomenon, the new book “Techno-Negative” reminds us; it’s a feeling that has existed in some form across millennia.

What happens when a growing cohort of young people decide to ditch their devices?

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On May 13th 1985, a Police Department helicopter hovering above 6221 Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia made history: it dropped 11/4-pound blocks of C-4 explosives, making it the first time a U.S. …

On May 13th 1985, a Police Department helicopter hovering above 6221 Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia made history: it dropped 11/4-pound blocks of C-4 explosives, making it the first time a U.S. …

Author Thomas Dekeyser explains why modern resistance to Big Tech is a deeply sane response to a narrow vision of humanity.

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