arkzyna 👣🌱Feb 25

RE: https://mastodon.tedomum.net/@deuxfleurs/116102289592904631

Dans un peu plus de 3 semaines à #Orléans, le collectif #InfraBasse dont je fais partie organise une journée de conférences-débats pour mettre en perspective les réflexions et initiatives concrètes de #désescaladenumérique qui émergent ces derniers mois.

Avec notamment @stph @lenuageetaitsousnospieds @arnaudlevy

#numérique #infrastructure
#numériqueresponsable #redirectionecologique #appropriation #maintenance #demantellement
#digitaldegrowth #decroissance #redirectionecologique

Show threadFélix TréguerDec 19
Morozov brilliantly exposes how capitalism forecloses technological possibilities. But perhaps the most foreclosed possibility of all is that advanced AI itself — even one we might be able to tinker with to adapt to our own ends — might be incompatible with a livable planet. #DigitalDegrowth?
bookpunkJan 18, 2025

"The only solution to the environmental crisis is to abolish class and inequality in every society. With respect to digital tech, this means eradicating digital colonialism and capitalism through a revolution based on digital degrowth."

— Michael Kwet: Digital Degrowth, p. 150

#DigitalColonialism #DigitalDegrowth #Technology #DigitalRights #FediBooks

Digital Degrowth - BookWyrm

A new framework for the digital society that merges the science of degrowth with a global analysis of the high-tech economy. Introduction 1. Digital Colonialism 2. What is Degrowth? 3. Digital Degrowth 4. Cloud Colonialism 5. Digital Ecocide 6. The Big Tech Military Machine 7. Surveil and Punish 8. People’s Tech and a Digital Tech Deal 9. Taking Action

bookpunkJan 13, 2025

The book is starting really strong, with an analysis and explanation of digital colonialism and critical economic theory. A lot of empirical evidence is provided but it does not disrupt the reading flow. Rather it makes me want to continue. Can definitely recommend so far! #FediBooks #DigitalColonialism #DigitalDegrowth #Degrowth #Colonialism #MichaelKwet

(comment on Digital Degrowth, p. 62)

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MarkoDec 17, 2024

📚 Michael Kwet hat ein sehr gutes Buch zum Thema #DigitalDegrowth geschrieben. In diesem Artikel der @berlinergazette gibt er einen Einblick über dieses Thema.

Er zeigt darin die starken Widersprüche zwischen der zwanghaften Digitalisierung durch #BigTech #SiliconValley und dem Erreichen des schieren Überlebens der Menschheit.

🌀 https://berlinergazette.de/de/digitales-post-wachstum-und-smarte-staedte/

#bookstodon #literatur

Digitales Post-Wachstum und ‚smarte‘ Städte: Die Macht von Big Tech herausfordern, den Kapitalismus stören · BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DE

Führende Big-Tech-Unternehmen sind mehr wert als das gesamte jährliche BIP der meisten Länder. Dies spiegelt nicht nur ihre wirtschaftliche Macht wider, sondern erinnert auch an die zunehmende algorithmische Kontrolle, die Big-Tech-Tools und -Infrastrukturen über die Ungleichheiten ausüben, die den kapitalistischen Stoffwechsel aufrechterhalten. Wenn die Städte, in denen heute etwa fünf von über acht Milliarden Menschen der Weltbevölkerung leben, zu Plattformen für die globale Revolution werden sollen, die wir heute brauchen, um die globale Hegemonie des Kapitalismus zu beenden – ein Unterfangen, das angesichts der vom Kapitalismus verursachten Klimakatastrophe dringender denn je erscheint –, dann müssen wir die Beziehung zwischen Big Tech und urbaner Revolte neu überdenken, argumentiert Michael Kwet in seinem Beitrag zur Reihe „Kin City“.

BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DE
BG | berlinergazette.deDec 12, 2024
Revolting against capitalism is urgently needed in the face of climate collapse caused by capitalism. First, we need to rethink the relation between Big Tech + urban revolt, argues Michael Kwet in his #KinCity-article: https://berlinergazette.de/digital-degrowth-and-smart-cities-challenging-the-power-of-big-tech-disrupting-capitalism/ #digitaldegrowth @plutopress
Digital Degrowth and ‘Smart’ Cities: Challenging the Power of Big Tech, Disrupting Capitalism · BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DE

Leading Big Tech companies are worth more than the entire annual GDP of most countries. This is not only a reflection of their economic power, but also a reminder of the growing degree of algorithmic control that Big Tech tools and infrastructures exert over the inequalities that sustain the capitalist metabolism. If cities, where about 5 of the world’s more than 8 billion people live today, are to become the platforms for the global revolution we need today to end the global hegemony of capitalism – an endeavor that seems more urgent than ever in the face of the climate catastrophe caused by capitalism – then we need to rethink the relationship between Big Tech and urban revolt, argues Michael Kwet in his article for the “Kin City” series.

BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DE
Miguel Afonso CaetanoAug 14, 2024

#Degrowth #DigitalDegrowth #Ecology #DigitalColonialism #DigitalCapitalism #SiliconValley: "The world is racing toward an irreversible ecological catastrophe. Environmental science makes clear that humans must reduce total material resource use, requiring a radical redistribution of wealth within and between countries. Yet little attention has been paid to how the digital economy fits into this equation.

Michael Kwet, a leading expert on digital colonialism, presents a new paradigm for the digital society. Merging the science of degrowth with a global analysis of the high-tech economy, he argues that digital capitalism and colonialism must be abolished quickly. In Digital Degrowth, Kwet maps out a path to a people's tech future. He calls for direct action against Silicon Valley, US imperialism and power elites everywhere in order to realize a radically egalitarian digital society that fosters equality in harmony with nature."

https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745349862/digital-degrowth/

Digital Degrowth

'A fascinating book that takes degrowth in new directions' - Jason Hickel, author of Less is More 'A must-read for anyone who wants to know the brut...

Pluto Press
Philip Stade ♻Oct 24, 2023

Heute habe ich über #DigitalDegrowth und Dalton-Pädagogik beim #BarcampLernräume diskutiert.

Mega Location in #Freiburg: Lokhalle Grünhof. Hier möchte man sich regelmäßiger austauschen und vernetzen.

Philip Stade ♻Oct 21, 2023

@neil_selwyn I am looking at the concept of #digitalsufficiency in contrast to #digitaldegrowth : https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12243-022-00914-x

There are a lot of overlaps of those concepts - What are your reasons for preferring digital degrowth as a term? Degrowth could lead to more rejection than sufficiency, in my opinion.

Digital sufficiency: conceptual considerations for ICTs on a finite planet - Annals of Telecommunications

ICT hold significant potential to increase resource and energy efficiencies and contribute to a circular economy. Yet unresolved is whether the aggregated net effect of ICT overall mitigates or aggravates environmental burdens. While the savings potentials have been explored, drivers that prevent these and possible counter measures have not been researched thoroughly. The concept digital sufficiency constitutes a basis to understand how ICT can become part of the essential environmental transformation. Digital sufficiency consists of four dimensions, each suggesting a set of strategies and policy proposals: (a) hardware sufficiency, which aims for fewer devices needing to be produced and their absolute energy demand being kept to the lowest level possible to perform the desired tasks; (b) software sufficiency, which covers ensuring that data traffic and hardware utilization during application are kept as low as possible; (c) user sufficiency, which strives for users applying digital devices frugally and using ICT in a way that promotes sustainable lifestyles; and (d) economic sufficiency, which aspires to digitalization supporting a transition to an economy characterized not by economic growth as the primary goal but by sufficient production and consumption within planetary boundaries. The policies for hardware and software sufficiency are relatively easily conceivable and executable. Policies for user and economic sufficiency are politically more difficult to implement and relate strongly to policies for environmental transformation in general. This article argues for comprehensive policies for digital sufficiency, which are indispensible if ICT are to play a beneficial role in overall environmental transformation.

SpringerLink
Show threadPhilip Stade ♻Aug 23, 2023

Danke @bildungsradar für den Hinweis auf die UNESCO-Studie.

Im Anschluss an Diskussionen im @bzt @Gibro @schb

Thanks for the great #digitaldegrowth-article, @neil_selwyn