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Techno-negative : a long history of refusing the machine /

"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 journe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dekeyser, Thomas (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2026]
Subjects:
Technology > Social aspects.
Technology > Moral and ethical aspects.
Technology > History.
Technological innovations.
Technologie > Aspect social.
Technologie > Aspect moral.
Innovations.
Technologie > Histoire.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Burning Down Artifice: Technology, Negativity, and Ontological Policing
  • Delay: Homo Humanus and the Ontological Horror of TechnÄ“
  • Prohibition: Medieval Demonology of Machines
  • Breaking: State Luddites, Predators, and a Capitalist Theory of Law
  • Indifference: Techno-Colonialism, Onticide, and the Limits of Posthumanism
  • Extinguishing: Vandals and Epistemics on Black Boulevard
  • Exodus: Phobia and (Techno-)Rationalism in an Epoch of Planetary Technicity
  • Arson: An Entropic History of Computation
  • Conclusions. Against a Humanist Politics: Techno-Abolitionist Beginnings
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.