Techno-Negative

Contents

Introduction. Burning Down Artifice: Technology, Negativity, and Ontological Policing

Part I. Sovereignty

1. Delay: Homo Humanus and the Ontological Horror of Techne

2. Prohibition: Medieval Demonology of Machines

Part II. Revolt

3. Breaking: State Luddites, Predators, and a Capitalist Theory of Law

4. Indifference: Techno-Colonialism, Onticide, and the Limits of Posthumanism

5. Extinguishing: Vandals and Epistemics on Black Boulevard

Part III. Withdrawal

6. Exodus: Phobia and (Techno-)Rationalism in an Epoch of Planetary Technicity

7. Arson: An Entropic History of Computation

Conclusions. Against a Humanist Politics: Techno-Abolitionist Beginnings

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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• Impacto da ciência e da tecnologia na sociedade
• História da engenharia e da tecnologia

technology; digital politics; ontology; anarchism; abolitionism; Luddism; Luddites; anti-technology; cybernetics; history of technology; Greece; techno-negativity; lantern smashing; technophobia; France; computer bombers; media theory; media history; CLODO; Machines in Flames