Thomas Dekeyser

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

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@lunarbaedeker it's a moral obligation for all of us multilingual folks to do this at every possible opportunity

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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. https://t.co/0AZMMSDYSS

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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.

[Geography & Environmental Science at Southampton @UoSGeogEnv]

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: https://t.co/qrKu5tukL3

[MNG - University Presses @MNGUP_Books]

@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 ⬇️
https://t.co/3gDis4sDLf

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@SamBaudinette Lucas Pohl's work with Erik Swyngedouw is good on this https://t.co/fEtXQg3Vrk (see also their forthcoming Verso book)

[Endnotes @endnotesjournal]

“We have a world of pleasures to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.”

RIP RAOUL VANEIGEM (1934-2026)

https://t.co/BFDfMSP7zq

[NZZ Wissenschaft @NZZWissen]

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. https://t.co/BAwfUWIWCF

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Interview with @libe on techno-negativity, moving beyond reformism, and imagining new tech politics. With thanks to @NastasiaHdj for the conversation.

https://t.co/F9TKoIFIxL

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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.

https://t.co/oWAU0ypE8d

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@sfarquhar64 Hey, the books have already been sent out to a few folks - sorry!

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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.

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In a radical turn of events, director of a Google AI research tank finds that AI *is* intelligent after all.

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

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
https://t.co/a6rMg1FR7T

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@Talya sorry :( delivery costs outside of the UK are insanely high.

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For info about the book: https://t.co/XXBJWessxE

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@maeseangulo the way I would put to my pals it is the way I put in these tweets. The academic article is the place to situate my argument, and for those interested in the dense specifics of how tech's dehumanisation operates. Fine if you're not the audience I guess?

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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

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@StarQueen_9 yup, absolutely.

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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 https://t.co/7Ax6iNsEaX)

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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