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 benefiting from presenting AI in that way. www.npr.org/2026/09/13/n...

Could AI kill us all? Professor weighs in on former Anthropic employee's claim

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

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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. The project will trace AI tech across four countries & domains. More info about the project, and team hiring plans, coming soon.

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Congratulations to @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social, who has received an @erc.europa.eu ERC Starting Grant to support his research studying the close connections between AI and authoritarian politics. Find out more: www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2026/09...

@thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social 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 ⬇️ mngbookshop.co.uk/rgs-2026/ @uminnpress.bsky.social @rgs.org

For RGS attendees: there is an 'Author Meets Critics' session coming up Thursday for 'Techno-Negative' to talk tech refusal, abolitionism,... Thanks to @casey-lynch.bsky.social & those who kindly agreed to comment @davidjbissell.bsky.social @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @hannahmorgann.bsky.social

I've always wanted to write something on one of my favourite writers, Clarice Lispector. Now out: chapter on her 'negative' conception of love & the impersonal. Part of the new open-access book 'Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe' by @ajsecor.bsky.social @mikkojorge.bsky.social P Harrison

For those attending the RGS conference this week: do join us for a double session on 'Pessimist Geographies', starting at 9am on Friday.

If ‘race realists’ could be beaten purely by 'debating' them, they would have never made a comeback in the first place after having been discredited - for centuries - through rigorous academic debate. We can learn from Deleuze & Guattari: fascism spreads by way of affect and desire, not ideology.

We need to do more to counter the basic narrative equating technological change with 'progress'. New bits of hardware, software, or code are often regressive, solidifying and even resurfacing old habits. What's new technically is not necessarily novel socially, politically, ontologically.

Bernie Sanders wants the US government take ownership in AI companies. But is that really a good move? @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social joined @parismarx.com to discuss the long history of tech refusal and why we need to recognize this tech is not neutral. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/337_...

Thomas Dekeyser, géographe : «Il est temps de sauter hors du train fou de l’Intelligence artificielle» 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.

Thomas Dekeyser, géographe : «Il est temps de sauter hors du train fou de l’Intelligence artificielle»

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.

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Interview with @liberation.fr on techno-negativity, moving beyond reformism, and imagining new tech politics. With thanks to @nastasiahadjadji.bsky.social for the conversation. www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

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Tech Won’t Save Us@techwontsave.us · 3mo ago

Before the Luddites and the arrival of capitalism, it wasn’t just workers pushing back against technology; governments did too. This week @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how refusal of technology has a very long history. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/337_...

Before the Luddites and the arrival of capitalism, it wasn’t just workers pushing back against technology; governments did too. This week @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how refusal of technology has a very long history. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/337_...

Really excited to have featured on one of my favourite podcasts - Tech Won't Save Us. Big thank you to @parismarx.com for the fabulous questions and great discussion.

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 3mo ago

The tech industry wants us to believe its products are inevitable and we have no ability to stop them. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. It was great to chat with @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social about how tech refusal is something we’ve done for hundreds of years — and continues today.

🔴 NEW: Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK’s Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed By @nafeez.bsky.social, @peterjukes.bsky.social and @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation…

Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed

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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« Non à l'IA » : et si ce slogan devenait le cri de ralliement d'un mouvement de résistance global contre l'IA ? Dans son essai Techno-Negative, Thomas Dekeyser propose d'investir la notion de "techno-négativité" comme un antidote au techno-solutionnisme. Un entretien à découvrir 👇🏼 Partagez, Likez

L'IA IMPOSÉE à tous : faut-il assumer le REFUS, voire le SABOTAGE ?

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!!! we are starting "Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine" by Thomas Dekeyser this week. this week we're just reading the intro, so you still absolutely have time to get the book ASAP and join us.

Really not convinced by the argument that's surfacing which celebrates AI for its presumed inhumanism (and denounces anti-AI as reactionary humanism). I see AI as the extension and culmination of an increasingly violent humanism. Currently writing on a piece on this, but some initial thoughts: 1/4

Neulich sprach ich für die F.A.Z. mit dem Humangeographen Thomas Dekeyser über sein aktuelles Buch "Techno-Negative". Es ging auch um die lange katholische Tradition der Technikkritik und das, was Dekeyser als "ontological policing" bezeichnet, also die Unterschiede, die Technologien einziehen.

Brassier's forthcoming (2027) book FATELESSNESS looks fab. "Fate is never simply what befalls us; it is the consequence of what we have done. [Communism] is simply the abolition of fate, the movement through which we undo the illusion of necessity." www.foyles.co.uk/book/fateles...

We've got a book club this week! We're reading Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine by Thomas Dekeyser. Join us on Wednesday, June 24th at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. Register: sjsu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...

Techno-Negative

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...

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Thomas Dekeyser's TECHNO-NEGATIVE (www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...) has only been out a couple months but it's crossed over into the culture in ways few scholarly books do, and rarely so quickly. Reviews & discussion of the book in Vox, New Yorker, New York Times Magazine...

As the academic whose book is cited multiple times in this article, I want to make it clear: the data center revolt is great and we need more of it. (Getting a little sick of journalists purposefully misreading my arguments)

Vox@vox.com · 4mo ago

The data center revolt is a symptom of our political failure on AI. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Vacancy: Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography SoGE, in association with @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social, seeks an outstanding Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography to provide cover during Professor Derek McCormack’s period as Head of School: https://bit.ly/3PUDVG7 #academicsky

Job Details: Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography

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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Pope Leo XIV's critiques of AI remind me of the 12th C Pope Innocent III who saw in tech "all things vanity[...]as if man’s skill could surpass the art of his Creator.” Even if Leo's cynicism is sharper, anti-tech again becomes a means of extending Christian Humanism. (excerpt from Techno-Negative)

The Intro to our Special Issue on 🌑 "Encountering Nothingness" 🌑 (w/ @katiecmoliver.bsky.social) is here. We propose a 'void-thinking' that examines the originary nothingness that underpins all life + that is, in our current moment, intensifying in circulation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thomas Dekeyser is a great read on the techno-negative. Oddly enough, he sounds a lot like Walter Benjamin reconsidering “experience” after WWI.

Jesspooka Kant 🎃@jessdkant.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The college grads in open revolt against pro-AI speakers is a reminder that this isn’t about a failure to adopt technology. These students are the first generation to have had language models throughout their college experience. No one wants it. They want an education, not a four year sales pitch.

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

On the horror of our times and what it means to feel like you’re on the darkest timeline: my 2025 Political Geography Plenary, at last out from embargo with three brilliant commentaries and my response: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @squirerachael.bsky.social @politicalgeography.bsky.social

2025 Political Geography Plenary: On the bad timeline: Dissociative geo-politics in the time of Trump

Distortion, unreality, a confusion of perspective: it is hard to shake the feeling of “time out of joint” in the period since Trump's re-election to t…

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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?

Widerstand gegen Technologie: »Künstliche Intelligenz greift alles an«

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

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