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/

"Acclaimed journalist and '#EmpireOfAI' author #KarenHao sat down with award-winning writer #NaomiKlein for a conversation on the precarious #AI moment we find ourselves in."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1B__Efqacc

#artificialIntelligence #AGI #SamAltman #tech #BigTech #OpenAI #SiliconValley #surveillance #techFutures #technosolutionism #techWorkers #labour #books @bookstodon

The Techno-optimist Dream of Abundance is as Old as Technological Change Itself.

John Mulrow responds to the romanticized vision of the future promoted in the book Abundance (by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson).

https://gaianway.org/the-techno-optimist-dream-of-abundance-is-as-old-as-technological-change-itself/

#GaianWay #Reflection #Technosolutionism #Degrowth

Folks, our very own @gerrymcgovern has his new book, 99th Day: A Warning About Technology, coming out next Monday.

https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/99th-day/

“99th Day is essential reading for anyone who cares about our planet. Prepare to be disturbed, enlightened and inspired.” – Justine McCarthy, The Irish Times

And, if you’re in Ireland, Gerry has a book tour in February. If I’m in the country, I’ll be at the Dublin event on the 9th. Hope to see some of you there :)

https://gerrymcgovern.com/tour/

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#99thDay #books #environment #climateChange #capitalism #technology #BigTech #technoSolutionism #fascism #ireland

I wake up to more emails advertising university jobs, but not lecturers (or senior lecturers). No, these grade 6/7 salaries are for 'study advisors' or god forbid 'success partners'. As if Capita replaced Faculty, unis can now can look forward to being success managed, student to staff to redundancy. And its all decided with the big data imaginary.

#academia #academicchatter #data #TechnoSolutionism

This morning’s lecture: #Anthropocene #Technosolutionism essentially spends an hour defining these two terms, their interrelations, and sampling some artistic projects past and present that relate to them.

It’s also grown into an opportunity to bring Patricia Johanson’s practice out of obscurity (look her up!)

And, it’s the first time in years that I have impulsively chosen a lecture topic that successfully builds on my own research, making it so much easier to write!