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

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)

The Intro to our Special Issue on 🌑 "Encountering Nothingness" 🌑 (w/ @katiecmoliver.bsky.social) is here. We propose a 'void-thinking' that examines the originary nothingness that underpins all life + that is, in our current moment, intensifying in circulation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

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

Die Maschinen dienen heute den Wenigen. Wer sie ablehnt, gilt als rückständig. Thomas Dekeyser hält Widerstand für notwendig: Ist wieder mal Zeit für Maschinenstürmen?

London-based folks: I am running a night on the contemporary relevance of archives of tech resistance to celebrate the launch of my book, Techno-Negative 🔨🔥 it will take place at Mayday Rooms on 13th May. Free, but please register. Books for sale too! maydayrooms.org/event/an-eve...

Saboter les datacenters ou détruire les métiers à tisser. @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social signe une histoire de la résistance aux technologies — la « techno-négativité » Un entretien à lire absolument.

New paper with @casey-lynch.bsky.social on AI refusal, an introduction to our special issue on the topic. We examine cultural practices as potentially privileged, if messy and imperfect, sites of AI refusal. DM me for a PDF journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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:

"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...

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

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."

Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social in the NY Times on resistance to technology www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

One day to go, apply now! Link: www.qmul.ac.uk/arts/researc... @jirianger.bsky.social @drdanobrien.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social

The Introduction to TECHNO-NEGATIVE has been published here. The book opens with an account of arson attacks on fibre-optic cables in Berlin, and then goes on to set up the book's key claims.

Me a month ago: I need to read up on historical reactions to emerging computer technologies. @uminnpress.bsky.social: We gotchu, bestie. (Published today: Techno-Negative by Thomas Dekeyser)

"A brilliant and brave book that brings to the fore the brute refusal that haunts the history of technology.” @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social 's TECHNO-NEGATIVE out today! & included in this amazing @literaryhub.bsky.social roundup: lithub.com/louise-erdic...

the most urgent book we all need right now

Resistance against machines is shaped by class and the violence of the archive itself. Our book of the week traces arcs from Luddite loom-burners to French arsonists, viewing techno-negativity as both revolt and refusal. By @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social on @uminnpress.bsky.social buff.ly/MLjXabq

To mark today's release of my book 'Techno-Negative', I have a new piece out in @literaryhub.bsky.social. I trace a short history of the insult 'techno-phobe' to reveal its frail grounds, and how it is often the techno-rationalists who most forcefully succumb to phobia. lithub.com/technophobe-...

To mark today's release of my book 'Techno-Negative', I have a new piece out in @literaryhub.bsky.social. I trace a short history of the insult 'techno-phobe' to reveal its frail grounds, and how it is often the techno-rationalists who most forcefully succumb to phobia. lithub.com/technophobe-...

Officially released today!💥Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine💥 Tracing the refusal that haunts the history of tech, my book offers a source of inspiration for those looking for a new tech politics beyond reform/acceleration. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773... Buy w/ discount👇

Author Thomas Dekeyser explains why modern resistance to Big Tech is a deeply sane response to a narrow vision of humanity https://restofworld.org/2026/techno-negative-thomas-dekeyser-fighting-ai/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1773857643

Job opportunity: Teaching Fellow in Human Geography, University of Southampton. Please share. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQW415/t...

I have a short Chapter out on why cultural geographers need to take the premise of abolitionism seriously, part of the wonderful new 'Handbook of Cultural Geographies' by @ajsecor.bsky.social P Merriman ans S Sumartojo. Message me for scans of the chapter. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

New paper on ‘detachment’ as (non)relation, which is partly an intervention into debates around relations/relationality, and partly the latest in a series on attachment-detachment. In Progress in Human Geography journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Next week, 26th Feb, I am giving a lecture discussing my forthcoming book at Goldsmiths University, as part of their Visual Cultures programme. 5-7PM. Details at www.instagram.com/p/DUtQULJl63...

important commentary!!! www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u...

Posting my article again in hopes of finding you! Dear reader who is interested in posthuman theories and radical politics! If this isn’t ‘you’, please share until I find the right ‘you’. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We've put together a 'call for papers' for the 2026 RGS-IBG Conference in London (1 - 4 September). The theme: *pessimist geographies*. Get in touch if you have any questions. www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

A second blurb has rolled in by another favourite thinker of mine. Pre-order the book here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...

So much careful thought on tech refusal crammed into two days. Thanks for the invite and the wonderful organisation @danishanley.bsky.social @judithcampagne.bsky.social @floralysen.bsky.social et al

Got to present the book in full for the first time yesterday at the 'Technological Life Research Cluster' (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social). Big thank you to @atmosphericthings.bsky.social and attendees for the wonderful questions and comments.

"We might not win in the end, but even in the attempt to resist, we will salvage some of our humanity." @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social 's TECHNO-NEGATIVE is a @lithub.com.web.brid.gy anticipated book of '26! lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...

Happy to finally launch Disjunctions with an article from the editorial team! Stay tuned for our first issue, which we will start publishing in the new year.

Had a long conversation with Jake Hanrahan @hanrahan.tv for his great Hanrahan Live series. We discuss anti-tech politics, Ted Kaczynski, AI, etc etc. Have a listen if you're interested. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKX4...

First blurb for Techno-Negative 👐 wonderful to read the words of someone whose works I greatly admire. pre-order the book here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...

Next up in the series… Say hello to Thomas Dekeyser (he/him), our new Website Co-ordinator, keeping all things DGRG online running smoothly! 👇 @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social And why not check out the site to see what we're up to: digitalgeographiesrg.org #DGRGCommittee

Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥 We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I am inviting applications for PhD projects at Uni of Southampton, focused on: politics of refusal, digital tech, urban interventions and/or geographical theory. Funding app's would be made to the South Coast DTP. Please check out my work to ensure a fit! www.thomasdekeyser.com/phd-supervis...

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

We're going to have people like @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social with us talking about his book. How could I not be excited? there's still time to submit something... www.aanmelder.nl/techrefusal

*very* excited about @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social’s new book, out next year w/ @uminnpress.bsky.social 🤖 🚫 www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...

Read my latest commentary on Big Tech Authoritarianism, which discusses how Big Tech actively constructs authoritarian spaces – both within their organisational structures and across broader socio-political contexts. doi.org/10.1177/2976...

Crawford's new essay in e-flux offers the best summary of the monstrous absurdity of contemporary AI that I've read in a long time. (via @jonnyjjt.bsky.social) www.e-flux.com/architecture...

To those attending the RGS conference this week: interested in authoritarianism and/or AI, do come and join us on Friday for this brilliant set of papers. It will be insightful, bleak, and much more. ✨ organised w/ @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @casey-lynch.bsky.social