🔮 Starting in a few minutes: the livestream of the opening keynote at #WiConf26!

đŸŽ€ Nick #Srnicek will deliver his keynote, The Rise of Silicon Empires, exploring the growing power and influence of major technology companies in shaping our digital future.

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🚀 The Weizenbaum Conference 2026 is almost here!

On 10–11 June, researchers from around the world will come together in Berlin to discuss the social, political, and economic implications of generative AI.

Highlights include:

📅 10 June
đŸŽ€ Keynote: Nick #Srnicek (King's College London)
💬 Panel Discussion: Artificial Intelligence, Power Concentration, and Politics: Has Big Tech Taken Over?

@WZB_Berlin @FraunhoferFOKUS #WIConf26

"Inventing the Future" by Nick #Srnicek (2015) is a political and philosophical journey leading to 3 mutually-reinforcing demands:
1. Full automation
2. Universal basic income
3. Reduced work-time

Automation is great when its rewards are shared: the Luddites protested not the machines, but the concentration of capital.

It seems there's not been a better occasion to demand full automation - many are doing that already.

Now is the time to agitate for #UBI and reduced work-time (again.)

Feel like reposting my #bookreview of #Srnicek and #Williams book of political strategy 'Inventing the future'. #postcapitalism #socialmovement http://preorg.org/inventing-the-future-ignoring-the-past-a-review/
Inventing the future, ignoring the past – a review

There was much that interested me in Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams’ Inventing the Future. The first part of the book constructs a critique of what they call ‘folk politics’. This


Preorg!
Accelerare verso cosa?
di Daniele Gambetta
pubblicato in origine su il https://www.dinamopress.it/news/accelerare-verso-cosa/ 2 febbraio 2020
Il saggio di Tiziano Cancelli “How To Accelerate” (Tlon Edizioni) ricostruisce storicamente la galassia teorica dell’accelerazionismo, indicandone possibilità e lim
http://rizomatica.noblogs.org/2020/02/accelerare-verso-cosa/
#accellerazionismo #bifo #ccru #cyberpunk #fisher #futuro #srnicek #williams #xenofemminismo
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Accelerare verso cosa? - DINAMOpress

Il saggio di Tiziano Cancelli, “How To Accelerate” (Tlon Edizioni) ricostruisce storicamente la galassia teorica dell’accelerazionismo, indicandone possibilità e limiti interni

DINAMOpress
AccĂ©lĂ©rationnisme : Ă  vos Marx, prĂȘts, foncez ! #usbeketrica https://usbeketrica.com/article/accelerationnisme-a-vos-marx-prets-foncez #srnicek