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2026 5

  1. Beyond AI: Infrastructuring the Common Good
  2. Teaching Anti-Fascism Today
  3. Speaker notes from Resisting Big Tech Empires
  4. Preprint: AI, Decomputing and the Interregnum
  5. AI is a morbid symptom of the interregnum

2025 15

  1. Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education
  2. Opening Statement to the Irish Parliament Committee on AI
  3. Not the digital transformation you planned for: AI accelerationism versus decomputing
  4. Low Carbon Computing versus The Blackpilled Anthropocene
  5. Decomputing as Resistance
  6. Resisting the Techno-Fascist Takeover: Are We Ready for Decomputing?
  7. The role of the University is to resist AI
  8. Q&A: AI and Disability
  9. Q&A with POLITICOs Tech Newsletter
  10. Abstract for seminar at the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought (CPCT)
  11. Questions for Anthropic (or any other LLM-pusher)
  12. AI Infrastructures, Total Mobilisation and Decomputing
  13. Labours AI Action Plan - a gift to the far right
  14. Interview with Diyar Saraçoğlu
  15. Labours AI Action Plan (intro)

2024 6

  1. AI Infrastructures and Decomputing
  2. A Just Transition Means Resisting AI
  3. Betting on AI will take Scotland backwards not forwards
  4. Decomputing
  5. Deschooling AI
  6. AI will create a thousand Post Office scandals

2023 5

  1. AI as Algorithmic Thatcherism
  2. EU AI Act briefing
  3. Evidence to House of Lords inquiry into Large language models
  4. The political intervention in AI that we need right now...
  5. We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it.

2022 1

  1. Resisting AI - chapter abstracts

2021 1

  1. Obnoxious Machines - the prospects for Luddism in the era of AI

2019 2

  1. AI Realism and structural alternatives
  2. Towards an anti-fascist AI

2018 3

  1. Rethinking AI through the politics of 1968
  2. Mental Health and Machine Learning Bulletin #1: Losing Your Voice
  3. Manifesto on Algorithmic Humanitarianism

2016 1

  1. Citizen Science as Political Consciousness

2015 6

  1. Science for Change Kosovo Year 1
  2. Ghosts in the Algorithmic Resilience Machine
  3. Data Science and Phrenology
  4. Hannah Arendt and Algorithmic Thoughtlessness
  5. Data Luddism
  6. Seventeen Theses on DIY Science

2014 1

  1. The Anthropocene, Resilience and Post-Colonial Computation

2013 1

  1. ‘We Are at an Extreme Point Where We Have to Go All in on What We Really Believe Education Should Be About’

2001 4

  1. Genoa statement
  2. Book
  3. Events
  4. podcasts