danmcquillan
computer saboteurs CLODO understood AI better in the 1980s than most do now: "the computer became a parahuman entity (cf. the discussion on artificial intelligence), a demon or an angel.. anything but a zealous servant of the system we live in." https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/le-clodo-clodo-speaks
#clodo #AI #luddism
The CLODO Speaks

Comité Liquidant Ou Détournant Les Ordinateurs (C.L.O.D.O.) The CLODO Speaks October 1983 Processed World, issue #10. --translated and introduced by Maxine...

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Show threaddanmcquillanApr 27, 2023
Their response, btw, was to set fire to computer centres https://machinesinflames.com/
Machines in Flames

Machines in Flames (2022, 50min) was first distributed through a network of self-erasing USB data sticks dropped outside corporate campuses. This prompted warning emails from tech firms who feared the release of its secret history of computational self-destruction. They sought to contain its cinematic search for an elusive group - CLODO - that bombed computer companies in 1980s Toulouse, France. Journeying through the cybernetic nodes of military, industrial, and socialist development, Machines in Flames exposes how recording devices fail to collect the ashes of history. It is unclear what mad

Show threadana vldvApr 27, 2023

@danmcquillan in the documentary "Machine in Flames" they investigated CLODO:

https://machinesinflames.com

Machines in Flames

Machines in Flames (2022, 50min) was first distributed through a network of self-erasing USB data sticks dropped outside corporate campuses. This prompted warning emails from tech firms who feared the release of its secret history of computational self-destruction. They sought to contain its cinematic search for an elusive group - CLODO - that bombed computer companies in 1980s Toulouse, France. Journeying through the cybernetic nodes of military, industrial, and socialist development, Machines in Flames exposes how recording devices fail to collect the ashes of history. It is unclear what mad

Show threaddanmcquillanApr 27, 2023
@ana_valdi yes indeed!