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A radical history of technology told through acts of resistance, not progress
The history of technology is often told as a history of progress, moving optimistically and inevitably from one emancipatory invention to the next. Techno-Negative turns this story on its head, taking us on a journey to the critical junctures where people have pointedly rejected and tried to undo, rather than adopt, new technologies. Beginning with Archimedes's decision to destroy his own war machines, this book explores the will to negate technology as a deep - but persistently condemned - current in history.
As he presents a new theory of technological power, Thomas Dekeyser argues that technologies, never neutral, operate as "ontological policing," drawing the boundaries of humanness as they are unequally leveraged by select groups. Looking beyond the Luddites to medieval monks banning tools, seventeenth-century loom burners, revolutionary lantern smashers, and computer arsonists, Dekeyser shows how people have long recognized and resisted the machine as a violent, sometimes deadly force implicated in defining who counts as human and whose lives (and ways of life) are worth saving.
Against the ubiquitous demands to reform or accelerate technological "advancement" that have failed to disrupt our present, Dekeyser proposes a spirited alternative: abolition. He challenges us to rethink the terms of our technological present and future. In a time when Big Tech grows increasingly enmeshed with authoritarian control, Techno-Negative is a conceptual declaration, and source of inspiration, for those searching for a new paradigm of technological politics.
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A radical history of technology told through acts of resistance, not progress
The history of technology is often told as a history of progress, moving optimistically and inevitably from one emancipatory invention to the next. Techno-Negative turns this story on its head, taking us on a journey to the critical junctures where people have pointedly rejected and tried to undo, rather than adopt, new technologies. Beginning with Archimedes's decision to destroy his own war machines, this book explores the will to negate technology as a deep - but persistently condemned - current in history.
As he presents a new theory of technological power, Thomas Dekeyser argues that technologies, never neutral, operate as "ontological policing," drawing the boundaries of humanness as they are unequally leveraged by select groups. Looking beyond the Luddites to medieval monks banning tools, seventeenth-century loom burners, revolutionary lantern smashers, and computer arsonists, Dekeyser shows how people have long recognized and resisted the machine as a violent, sometimes deadly force implicated in defining who counts as human and whose lives (and ways of life) are worth saving.
Against the ubiquitous demands to reform or accelerate technological "advancement" that have failed to disrupt our present, Dekeyser proposes a spirited alternative: abolition. He challenges us to rethink the terms of our technological present and future. In a time when Big Tech grows increasingly enmeshed with authoritarian control, Techno-Negative is a conceptual declaration, and source of inspiration, for those searching for a new paradigm of technological politics.
Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.
Thomas Dekeyser is lecturer in human geography at the University of Southampton.
Contents
Introduction. Burning Down Artifice: Technology, Negativity, and Ontological Policing
Part I. Sovereignty
1. Delay: Homo Humanus and the Ontological Horror of Technē
2. Prohibition: Medieval Demonology of Machines
Part II. Revolt
3. Breaking: State Luddites, Predators, and a Capitalist Theory of Law
4. Indifference: Techno-Colonialism, Onticide, and the Limits of Posthumanism
5. Extinguishing: Vandals and Epistemics on Black Boulevard
Part III. Withdrawal
6. Exodus: Phobia and (Techno-)Rationalism in an Epoch of Planetary Technicity
7. Arson: An Entropic History of Computation
Conclusions. Against a Humanist Politics: Techno-Abolitionist Beginnings
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Technik allgemein |
| Genre: | Importe, Technik |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781517917739 |
| ISBN-10: | 1517917735 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Dekeyser, Thomas |
| Hersteller: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk |
| Maße: | 212 x 137 x 15 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Thomas Dekeyser |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 24.03.2026 |
| Gewicht: | 0,312 kg |
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