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
Cables of Resistance - movement conference against Big Tech
Schedule, talks and talk submissions for Cables of Resistance - movement conference against Big Tech
Resistance Is Your Friend
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?
Technological Dramas - Bryan Pfaffenberger, 1992
This article examines the technological construction of political power, as well as resistance to political power, by means of an 'ideal-typical' mode...
Actualités/Essais/Documents
Technopolitique, Asma Mhalla : Intelligence artificielle, réseaux sociaux, implants cérébraux, satellites, métavers… Le choc technologique sera l’un ...
Collective Action School
Explore how you can remake tech. Tech worker organizing, unionizing, and building different technologies
‘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.
May First Movement Technology
Digital infrastructure for liberation. Member-run, movement-rooted.
Libritos Jenkins (Frunobulax) (@frunobulax.bsky.social)
Impresionante e hipnótica exhibición de animación stop-motion tradicional aplicada al diseño gráfico, obra de TOMOHIRO OKAZAKI 🙃
New Design Congress (@newdesigncongress@mastodon.world)
4 Posts, 7 Following, 128 Followers · An independent research group confronting the gap between what is said to be happening and what is actually happening in digitised societies.
The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology might Benefit Each Other
The need for an integrated social constructivist approach towards the study of science and technology is outlined. Within such a programme both scientific facts and technological artefacts are to be understood as social constructs. Literature on the sociology of science, the science-technology relationship, and technology studies is reviewed. The empirical programme of relativism within the sociology of scientific knowledge and a recent study of the social construction of technological artefacts are combined to produce the new approach. The concepts of `interpretative flexibility' and `closure mechanism', and the notion of `social group' are developed and illustrated by reference to a study of solar physics and a study of the development of the bicycle. The paper concludes by setting out some of the terrain to be explored in future studies.
Technology is Society Made Durable
Is it possible to devise a set of concepts that could replace the technology/society divide? This set of new concepts - association and substitution - might help to rephrase some of the traditional questions of social order and especially that of the durability of domination of power. However, instead of using different tools to analyse power and weakness, it is argued that power and domination are simply different values of variables that should be studied in their whole range. By reconstructing networks it is argued that a full description of power and domination may be obtained.
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
A witty, often terrifying that chronicles our transform…
The Technological Construction of Social Power
This essay presents a theory of the role of technology in the distribution and exercise of social power. The paper studies how technical artefacts and systems are used to construct, maintain or st...
reading group
The Knit Tech Reading Group (KTRG) meets monthly to discuss contemporary research in knitting technology. The aim of the group is to convene practitioners and researchers from a diverse range of backgrounds to further discussion of the following questions: