For anyone still in town from #rp26, and/or for local Berliners + Kiez comrades, if interested to explore and discuss the intersections betw. #technocolonialism + #techoligarchs + #gentrification + cultural #displacement +#forcedevictions + #krapitalism + #technofascism the XLt Subkultur Tours project might be for YOU ! Contact us to reserve a spot ! And XXXtra info here : https://tinyurl.com/ykjhf72k
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Yesterday colonialism used maps; today algorithms occupy the human body. Technocolonialism transforms flesh into data fields, relentlessly mining attention and desire, subtly steering behavior. The body loses political agency and autonomy, becoming a profitable marketplace.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZJJQ6
#AntiHarari, #Technocolonialism, #Philosophy, #Transhumanism, #Introduction, #BodyTerritory, #DigitalSovereignty, #DataColonialism
In the thirteenth century, Aquinas wrote that story; he sanctified the ownership of land and the serf’s body by the lord as “divine order.” In the twenty‑first century, Yuval Noah Harari takes on the same task. Only this time, God gives way to Data, and divine order to the Algorithm.
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Book review: Technocolonialism by Mirca Madianou

Mirca Madianou’s Technocolonialism shows how six logics of digital humanitarianism – humanitarian accountability, audit, capitalism, technosolutionism, securitization and resistance – together combine to reproduce colonial practices of extraction, paternalisation, marginalisation and disempowerment through digital solutions.

Using examples from fieldwork in multiple geographies, Madianou first provides a brief history lesson on the logics of colonialism, demonstrating its far-reaching […]

https://blog.kathyreid.id.au/2025/06/25/book-review-technocolonialism-by-mirca-madianou/

This 2-part interview w/ #KarenHao, author of Empire of AI - just yesterday - is a very deep investigation and expansion on the @digiges discussions at @cbase last tues. ... on the need to regulate and/or 'democratize' and/or ? stop AI ?! #digitalcolonialism #technocolonialism #technofascism #fuckoff #OpenAI + #SamAltman ... https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/4/karen_hao_empire_of_ai
“Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World

The new book Empire of AI by longtime technology reporter Karen Hao unveils the accruing political and economic power of AI companies — especially Sam Altman’s OpenAI. Her reporting uncovered the exploitation of workers in Kenya, attempts to take massive amounts of freshwater from communities in Chile, along with numerous accounts of the technology’s detrimental impact on the environment. “This is an extraordinary type of AI development that is causing a lot of social, labor and environmental harms,” says Hao.

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