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Benoit Dillet

@benoitdillet.bsky.social

Researching technology and political theory, Senior Lecturer @UniBath

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Benoit Dillet@benoitdillet.bsky.social · last mo.

I really enjoyed co-writing this blog piece for the excellent The Polyphony! With @drsophiah.bsky.social we discuss what roles affects have in the current data-driven climate politics. thepolyphony.org/2026/07/06/b...

Beyond Climate Data: The Role of Climate Affects in Politicising Climate Change

Benoit Dillet and Sophia Hatzisavvidou examine the role that climate data plays in overlooking and depoliticising lived experiences of climate anxiety.

thepolyphony.org

Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Something Kevin’s recent pieces have flagged for me is the sneaky veil of ideological compression involved around “AI” in critical discourse and not merely in the obvious hype cycle.

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Benoit Dillet@benoitdillet.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I am looking forward to discussing later today my new co-authored book (Transition Imaginaries: Contested Temporalities, Affective Politics, and Decolonial Technology) as part of this excellent webinar series. See below details if interested

Angela Marques Filipe@angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join us for another online seminar in the Weather, Climate & Health IMH theme series. Dr @benoitdillet.bsky.social (Bath) will talk on "Overcoming the sad affects of the energy transition" (w/ Sophia Hatzisavvidou), further marking their new book ("Transition Imaginaries"). Free registration ⬇️

Angela Marques Filipe@angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join us for another online seminar in the Weather, Climate & Health IMH theme series. Dr @benoitdillet.bsky.social (Bath) will talk on "Overcoming the sad affects of the energy transition" (w/ Sophia Hatzisavvidou), further marking their new book ("Transition Imaginaries"). Free registration ⬇️

Overcoming the sad affects of the energy transition

Join us for an instalment of the Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme's online talk series.

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Benoit Dillet@benoitdillet.bsky.social · last yr.

While the global elites are busy ignoring climate change, there is a shared sense of shame at the state of our damaged planet. See below my new article (open access) on this if you’re interested 🌏 Any comments / responses welcome

Environmental Politics@environmentalpol.bsky.social · last yr.

'The shame of the world in ordinary climate politics'. New article by @benoitdillet.bsky.social. Beyond responsibility and guilt, shame’s political force lies with its affirmation of the dignity and worthiness of what we have already lost. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

ABSTRACT Studies in the recent turn to emotions and affects in environmental politics have mostly focused on anxiety, guilt, and grief. I make the case for shame as an unaccounted, and potentially mobilising, force in climate change politics. The argument proceeds in three steps. I first look at individual forms of shame and their manifestation in ordinary climate politics: shame as ‘green guilt’ and shaming as a political tool. Then I examine in more detail Greta Thunberg’s original use of shame and at the phenomenon of ‘flight shame’. Finally, I turn to Primo Levi’s writings on the shame of the world as a structural and dialectical form of shame. In his work we find the conceptual resources to create new symbolic bonds with other humans and nonhumans. To illustrate the theoretical argument, I discuss the idea of dialectical shame in relation to the alarming situation of pollution season in Delhi, India.
Benoit Dillet@benoitdillet.bsky.social · last yr.

“We are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species. The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death.”

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

theguardian.com

Reactionary Politics Research Network@reacpolrn.bsky.social · last yr.

📢New Blog📢 Our member, @benoitdillet.bsky.social, discusses the rise of technofascism and the role of Artificial Intelligence in enabling new forms of tyranny. reacpol.net/technofascism/

Blog: Technofascism and the AI Stage of Late Capitalism (Benoit Dillet) - Reactionary Politics Research Network

Blog post by Benoit Dillet, member of the RPRN, first published on the Blog of the American Philosophical Association (APA).

reacpol.net

Benoit Dillet@benoitdillet.bsky.social · last yr.

“Technofascism seized power by promoting a familiar image of technology rooted in an innovation-centric history—that is, predominantly white, male and wealthy.” Republished by the Greek collective Void Network voidnetwork.gr/2025/03/11/t...

Technofascism and the AI Stage of Late Capitalism | Void Network

Why call this mode of governing technofascism? Fascists have swapped their black boots and black shirts for keyboards, but their misogyny and their aggressive culture persist.

voidnetwork.gr

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · last yr.

at this stage, there's a robust body of work exposing the unreliability and limitations of llms but what will it take for governments, businesses, and other large institutions to rid critical social infrastructure off llms

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · last yr.

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

Benoit Dillet@benoitdillet.bsky.social · last yr.

“Technofascism seized power by promoting a familiar image of technology rooted in an innovation-centric history—that is, predominantly white, male and wealthy.” Republished by the Greek collective Void Network voidnetwork.gr/2025/03/11/t...

Technofascism and the AI Stage of Late Capitalism | Void Network

Why call this mode of governing technofascism? Fascists have swapped their black boots and black shirts for keyboards, but their misogyny and their aggressive culture persist.

voidnetwork.gr

Jason Read@jasonread.bsky.social · 2y ago

"The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century" Karl Marx 1871

Becca Lewis@beccalew.bsky.social · 2y ago

For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

theguardian.com

Karen Hao@karenhao.bsky.social · 2y ago

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

Giorgos Katsambekis@gkatsambekis.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is incredibly worrying & dangerous. Looks like a clear indication of how large social media platforms are now actively becoming a part of an #authoritarian shift in US politics & beyond.

Linda Bos 🟥@lindabos.bsky.social · 2y ago

Also for the international crowd: #Instagram censors “Democrat” as a search term, while allowing “Republican” and seems to prioritize anti-leftwing content in search queries for alternative search terms. #DSA