#decomputing — Public Fediverse posts

It questions automation and algorithmic decision-making. Decomputing opens space for simpler, more human-centered ways of thinking and acting.

Learn more about the festival’s themes and selected program points in the second episode of AMRO on Air 2026 with Davide Bevilacqua, Joseph Knierzinger and Gabriela Gordillo. Available today at 17:00 on Radio FRO.

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Glossary 5/6 - De-computing

With this glossary series, AMRO 2026 introduces concepts, terms, and practices that shape the festival’s thematic field. Rather than fixed definitions, these entries are invitations to approach shared questions through different critical vocabularies.

“De-computing” asks what happens when we reduce reliance on computational systems.

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Interesting pre-print: "This paper treats #AI as diagnostic for the deeper changes taking place in the existing order of things. […] AI's scaling and accelerationism are taken as examples of the wider tactics being invoked by hegemonic power to maintain control under changing conditions. […] the massive build-out of data centres isn't simply a seizure of energy resources but a manifestation of an aggressive and misogynist technopolitics. The paper argues that a liberal push for digital #sovereignty doesn't interrupt these dynamics but plays into the hands of emerging technofascism. It proposes instead the prefigurative tactic of 'decomputing', which draws on #degrowth, deautomatisation and a #convivial approach to technology. It explores decomputing as a means to mitigate both material & relational harms and as a decisive turn towards infrastructuring the common good."

McQuillan, D. (2026). #AI, #Decomputing and the Interregnum. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18908529

https://www.danmcquillan.org/ai_decomputing_interregnum.html

Upcoming seminar by @danmcquillan:

"Drawing on Illich's 'Tools for Conviviality', this talk will argue that an important role for the contemporary university is to resist AI. The university as a space for the pursuit of knowledge and the development of independent thought has long been undermined by neoliberal restructuring and the ambitions of the Ed Tech industry. So-called generative AI has added computational shock and awe to the assault on criticality, both inside and outside higher education, despite the gulf between the rhetoric and the actual capacities of its computational operations. Such is the synergy between AI's dissimulations and emerging political currents that AI will become embedded in all aspects of students' lives at university and afterwards, preempting and foreclosing diverse futures. It's vital to develop alternatives to AI's optimised nihilism and to sustain the joyful knowledge that nothing is inevitable and other worlds are still possible. The talk will ask what Illich has to teach us about an approach to technology that prioritises creativity and autonomy, how we can bolster academic inquiry through technical inquiry, workers' inquiry and struggle inquiry, and whether the future of higher education should enrol lecturers and students in a process of collective decomputing."

https://danmcquillan.org/cpct_abstract.html

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