Name: Techno-Negative. A Long History of Refusing the Machine (en Inglés)
SKU: 66891885
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Author: Thomas Dekeyser
ISBN: 9781517917722

portada Techno-Negative. A Long History of Refusing the Machine (en Inglés)

Techno-Negative. A Long History of Refusing the Machine (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University of Minnesota Press

Autor

Thomas Dekeyser

Año

2026

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

240

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

21.6x14x1.2 cm

ISBN13

9781517917722

Techno-Negative. A Long History of Refusing the Machine (en Inglés)

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A radical history of technology told through acts of resistance, not progressThe 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.