Techno-Negative A Long History of Refusing the Machine

"This is a brilliant and brave book that brings to the fore the brute refusal that haunts the history of technology. I call it brave because it is, in fact, much easier for scholars to call for the reform of technology rather than its refusal. But in this techno-negative history from below, Thomas Dekeyser makes it abundantly clear that reform is futile." -Sarah Sharma, author of Insufferable Tools: Feminism Against Big Tech

"Negativity has fallen on hard times. In an age of making everything great again, Thomas Dekeyser's Techno-Negative offers a way out of the false opposition between nostalgic technophobia and brutal progressivism. Rather than clinging to or redeeming the world we have, techno-negativity charts a philosophically sophisticated genealogy and prognosis of refusal that allows the end of the world as we know it to be something other than the end of all things." -Claire Colebrook, author of Who Would You Kill to Save the World?

"Dekeyser is a crisp and forceful writer . . . provocative and enjoyable . . . [Techno-Negative] provide[s] inspiration for thinking against today's dominant technologies." -The New Yorker