As candles attract moths, so innovation offers attract resisters. You know this from experience. You work hard to propose something of demonstrable benefit to your clients or community and their first inclination is to resist it. Logical arguments do not change their minds. Optimists unhelpfully tell you to keep your chin up because resistance signifies you are doing something important. You start to wonder if anyone takes you seriously. Resistance is so common and intractable that it has a name: Valley of Death. Everyone wishes you good luck in getting through it alive. What is the story about resistance?
The AI Resist List
A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.
Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance
Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance
‘No & ...’ : A Forum on Technological Refusal - Home
This forum begins from the idea that refusal is, among other things, a rejection of one’s current relationship to technology (as an individual and/or as part of a collective) and a simultaneous commitment to another way of being in the world. The ‘no’ is accompanied by a ‘yes’ to another path. In this sense, refusal demands a careful articulation of what needs to change as well as a vision for a future that can (and should) be worked towards.
Technologisch forcierte Faschisierung Cables of Resistance - movement conference against Big Tech
1) tante: Faschisierende Aspekte unserer Technologien und unserer Nutzung 2) Sabrina Mittermeier: Queerfeministischer Perspektive auf die zunehmend unkritische Nutzung von „KI“ 3) capulcu: Krise der Wahrheit als Wegbereiter der Faschisierung
RadicalxChange
We are a community of activists, artists, entrepreneurs, and scholars committed to using mechanism design to inspire radical social change.
Don’t change the subject
Many creatives know this phenomenon: They start a new project on a promising topic with excitement, but when they can’t come up with an original idea instantly — they lose interest. They come to th…
Open Source Resistance
A direct-action manifesto for maintainers keeping open source alive on company time.
The World Is Already Resisting AI. Now, There is a List to Prove It.
Petra Molnar spotlights the launch of the AI Resist List, documenting global challenges to AI expansion.
Hope in Common
We seem to have reached an impasse. Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. Organized resistance appears scattered and incoherent; the global justice movement a shadow of its former self. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation […]
The Reddit Protest Is a Battle for the Soul of the Human Internet
An esoteric battle over API fees and access is highlighting a power struggle between corporate overlords and unpaid moderators. It's worth understanding, and it's worth fighting for.
Alienation, Idealization, and Modeling
Models allow us to expose, explore, and excavate our assumptions. This is especially true for the sorts of assumptions that concern scholars of marginalization and resistance, who aim to show how ...
Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition by Cedric J Robinson | East Bay Booksellers
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people’s history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate.
What’s the “R0” of a New Community Idea or Behavior?
What if the real test of a community idea isn’t whether people engage with it, but whether they pass it on?
Cables of Resistance - movement conference against Big Tech
Schedule, talks and talk submissions for Cables of Resistance - movement conference against Big Tech
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
