#luddism — Public Fediverse posts

Hello world! Luddite Academy investigates the political economy of digital creative practice from a luddite perspective, it aims to produce, curate, and disseminate counter-strategies to reclaim the means of digital production.

We are making our inaugural presentation today at the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland at University College Cork
🔗 https://www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/3rd-symposium-on-digital-art-in-ireland.html
📔 Book of abstracts: https://sample-studios.com/app/uploads/2026/03/Sample_Digital_Art_Booklet_2026_v5.pdf (p. 15)

➡️🌐 Follow us here and check our website as the project develops in the coming months https://luddite.academy

#luddism #luddites

Oooh, and one more, if I may, perhaps a tad more poignant than the previous one I shared:

"Evangelists in corporations or governments may like to tell us it is as a way of undermining our sense of collective agency, but together with the infinite cast who make up the history of techno-negativity, we know better. At a time when Big Tech is becoming enamored with authoritarian politics, the stakes are higher than ever"

#GenAI #SovereignByDesign #Luddism #Luddites #SocBiz

Another noteworthy quote from that blog post:

"With the emergence of the industrial revolution, technology had become a weapon wielded by the capitalist classes. Against this emergent capitalism, the Luddites developed a spirit of collectivism, fighting for themselves, for their fellow workers, and for a future beyond self-interest and profit"

#GenAI #SovereignByDesign #Luddism #Luddites #SocBiz

"With every leap in technological advancement, we witness a fierce urge to undo it. Technologies are invented, attacked, delayed, dropped, delayed, re-emerge, vanish again"

Thomas Dekeyser guest blogging in Brian Merchant's Blood in the Machine 👉🏻 https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-brief-history-of-techno-negativity

Wonder whether that techno-negativity was as fierce in the good old #Web20 / #Enterprise20 days than nowadays with #GenAI. Did we miss it? 🤔

#SovereignByDesign #Luddism #Luddites #SocBiz

[en] #Luddite: anti-progress fanatics, a popular misconception

"... original ... Luddites weren’t against #technology. "

"... wrest back control of technology for #democratic ends ... kind of "#digital #Luddism" which echoes past struggles against high-tech #injustice."

"... systemic change towards #sustainable, #transparent and #usercontrolled infrastructure."

https://theconversation.com/digital-luddites-are-rising-they-want-to-democratise-tech-not-destroy-it-251155

#overreliance #dependency #dominance #bigtech #gafam #techoligarchy #privacy #security #antitrust #ethical

Hyperconnectivity side-fx gradually surfacing in the #BasqueCountry

It remains to be seem whether is (i) #Unplugging fx, (ii) #Luddism, or (iii) an #Emancipatory reaction, or a bit of the 3 #AltxaBurua #Nomophobia

https://irratia.naiz.eus/es/info_irratia/20240925/gure-zerbitzura-egongo-den-teknologia-baten-alde-egiten-dugu-ez-alderantziz
@NAIZirratia
#DigitalRights #OnLife

#AI #GenerativeAI #Neoluddites #Luddism: "AI does, of course, hold promise. That promise is mostly an article of faith right now, with AI leaders promising technologies that are years away at best, unrealistic at worst. But there is reason to think there is some realism in the more optimistic predictions around AI. It may, as the AI visionaries would have you believe, truly change the world.

The backlash, though, points out that we cannot ignore real harms today in order to take technological gambles on the future. This is why companies such as Nintendo have said they will not use generative AI. It is why users of Stack Overflow, a Q&A website for software engineers, rebelled en masse after the platform struck a deal to allow OpenAI to scrub its content to train its models: users deleted their posts or edited them to fill them with nonsense. It is why people have started attacking driverless taxis on the streets of San Francisco, shouting that they’re putting humans out of work."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/27/harm-ai-artificial-intelligence-backlash-human-labour

#Neoluddites #Luddism #AI #GenerativeAI #Automation: "In 2023, the biggest story in tech was the rise of OpenAI and Silicon Valley’s embrace of generative AI. This year, the technology may grow only further entrenched: OpenAI is attempting to make its flagship product, ChatGPT, a stickier part of daily life with the launch of a new app store, and the company has inked deals with institutions such as Axel Springer and Arizona State University to broaden its reach. But in contrast to many previous tech trends, this story includes a grassroots movement amassing to resist the change. Like Crabapple, many of those who have joined proudly embrace the mantle of Luddite. Yes, the industry continues on its march, collecting huge investments to rapidly accelerate the development of this controversial technology. But the events of the past several months have demonstrated that, on some key fronts, the Luddites are winning."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/new-luddites-ai-protest/677327/

A wonderful comic about Luddites, working class history and AI.

By @tomhumberstone :anarchoheart3:

https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

#TheNib #TomHumberstone
#Luddism #Ludites #AI #AIRegulation #WorkersRights #Taylorism #WorkingClassHistory

#Luddism #Neoluddites #Luddites #BigTech #Automation: "After abbreviated glory in the 1810s, the Luddite brand has been revived in podcasts, TikToks, books, and picket line slogans. It has required rescue, the new Luddites say, from malign usage in popular speech. For the capitalists who crushed the original machine-breakers, and their successors in Silicon Valley C-suites of today, the Luddite became the perfect foil and eponymous epithet because he did not exist to defend himself, explains Brian Merchant in Blood in the Machine, a history of the movement published last month. The Luddites’ apparent extremism—smashing technology whose only crime was being productive—made the name a “pejorative figment of the entrepreneurial imagination,” Merchant writes, lobbed at anyone who stood in your technocratic path.

This label is as relevant now as ever, he argues. Like the Luddites who struck against machine-spun fabric and factory life, workers today are rising up against automated warehouses and gig work and AI-generated content. Behind them stand the same old merchants of progress: the likes of Marc Andreessen, cofounder of the a16z venture capital firm, who earlier this week published a “techno-optimist manifesto” labeling any and all questioners of progress as “liars.”

Merchant, a tech columnist at The Los Angeles Times who previously reviewed iPhones, joins others in arguing that Luddism is not just for loom-smashers, but for those uncomfortable with such blind faith. If you have ever wondered if the new technology arriving on your doorstep is not actually designed for the common benefit, then perhaps you too are carrying Ned Ludd’s flame."

https://www.wired.com/story/everyone-is-a-luddite-now/

#Luddism #Neoluddites #BigTech #AI: "The book offers plenty of satisfying imagery for the twenty-first-century reader experiencing techlash. Merchant argues that the message of Luddism is just as relevant today, as our lives become increasingly enmeshed with digital platforms, from TikTok to Uber and Instacart, that translate our labor and attention into profit, “overlaying a sort of psychic factory onto its workers’ lives.” (Who hasn’t at times wished to take a hammer to their MacBook?) The Luddites sought revenge against the innovation that was holding them hostage. In Merchant’s telling, they were activists, punks, and masked celebrities standing up for the skilled working class, the successors to Robin Hood, another product of Nottingham. “Luddite” by that measure sounds like a compliment."

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/rethinking-the-luddites-in-the-age-of-ai

@sillygwailo

I was deeply inspired by #Rintaro's #Metropolis to begin de-tech'ing myself, disconnecting all these cables implanted in my skin, like James Mason in Age of Consent, experiencing life…

https://youtu.be/4UNj-VK43iQ?si=QyNSrq40DEwNLjZc

YMMV of course 😅

#cinema #luddism #electronicskin #itisnowsafetoturnyourcomputeroff

Hackaday Links: September 17, 2023 - OK, it’s official — everyone hates San Francisco’s self-driving taxi fleet. Or at ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/09/17/hackaday-links-september-17-2023/ #hackadaycolumns #hackadaylinks #sanfrancisco #self-driving #simulator #snufffilm #robotaxi #luddism #slider #aeolus #alaska #cruise #iphone #recall #hiker #bear #z80

In the context of #Intel-in-#Magdeburg & #ChipShortage discussion: Is there any analysis of which consumer/end products have _started_ contained how many chips during the last few decades? And which product benefits that brings?

I mean: Why should my kitchen & household appliances need CPUs? Are "smart" devices overpowered? How many chips does the average consumer throw away per year?

#Chipmangel #Luddism