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Thomas Dekeyser

@thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social

Geographer at Uni of Southampton. Research: refusal, tech, cities. Book: Techno-Negative (Uni of Minnesota Press). Films: Breached/Machines in Flames. thomasdekeyser.com // Buy đź“– https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917739/techno-negative/

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Libération@liberation.fr · 2w ago

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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Thomas Dekeyser@thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · 3w ago

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 · 3w 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.

Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 4w ago

🔴 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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ali alkhatib@ali-alkhatib.com · last mo.

!!! 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.

my photo of the Techno-Negative cover; in the background is a tree and grass in the morning light.
Thomas Dekeyser@thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · last mo.

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

fabianebeling.bsky.social@fabianebeling.bsky.social · last mo.

Neulich sprach ich fĂĽr die F.A.Z. mit dem Humangeographen Thomas Dekeyser ĂĽber 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.

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Civics of Technology@civicsoftech.bsky.social · last mo.

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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School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford@oxfordgeography.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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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Thomas Dekeyser@thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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)

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Alina Stefanescu@alinaetc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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

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Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · 3mo 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.

Anna Secor@ajsecor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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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Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · 4mo ago

From the techné pessimists of Ancient Greece to the computer to the loom-breaking Luddites to the firebombers of the Information Age, here's a look at the long—and fruitful—legacy of refusing the machine. By @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social, for BITM:

A brief history of techno-negativity

From the techne pessimists of Ancient Greece to the computer firebombers of the Information Age, here's a look at the long—and fruitful—legacy of refusing the machine.

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Thomas Dekeyser@thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"The techno-feminist concern is not a matter of inclusion but in cultivating the temporalities, spatialities, etc that are incompatible with one’s utility within the normative family, the workplace, and the marketplace. Alexa must be refused, not repaired." dukeupress.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/q...

Q&A with Sarah Sharma, Author of Insufferable Tools

Sarah Sharma is Professor of Media Theory and Director of the Institute for Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto. She is author of In the Meantime: Tempor…

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Thomas Dekeyser@thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Rather excited to see my book reviewed in the @newyorker.com by the excellent @chaykak.bsky.social. "Dekeyser offers a tidy manifesto that may urge us on: “There is insufficient hatred for this technological world.” I could get a tattoo of that line, or at least use it as my iPhone background."

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 4mo ago

The new book “Techno-Negative” reminds us that resistance to new inventions has existed in some form across millennia. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...